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Reconciliation tonight at 7.00pm in St. Patrick’s Church for First Eucharist candidates and their families.

wk8 1Thank you to all the families who braved the cold for our dinner with Fr Joel last Wednesday. It was a lovely evening of fun, laughter and friendly conversation. The food was yummy too! It’s gatherings like this that remind me of how blessed we are here at St Patrick’s to have such wonderful parents and children in our community.

Jane

Last Sunday was Trinity Sunday. In the second reading, we heard St Paul use a Trinitarian greeting in his second letter to the infant church at Corinth: “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” Already this understanding of God was present in the very early Church and it would be further developed by the early Church Fathers

In John’s Gospel (3:16-18) we heard the words of Jesus:
“Jesus said to Nicodemus,

‘God loved the world so much

that he gave his only Son,

so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost

but may have eternal life.

For God sent his Son into the world

not to condemn the world,

but so that through him the world might be saved.

No one who believes in him will be condemned;

but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already,

because he has refused to believe

in the name of God’s only Son.’”

God is a love relationship. The Father loves the Son and Jesus loves the Father, and from their love the Holy Spirit bursts forth to give life to the world. The love between them is so strong, even though each is a unique and individual divine person, they act and love as one.

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