Pentecost 2019

Celebrate! Unity in Diversity!

• 4 languages in Green Bay
• Many cultures
• ONE Faith in God – Father, Son, Holy Spirit

Is there anyone here, or anyone on the face of the earth, who has not received the Holy Spirit! No, not one!

• If not with the Holy Spirit – No life!
• If aware of the Holy Spirit – MORE life!
• We want to share life! Not suspicion, not doubt, not hatred, not discrimination, prejudice, or racism.

Our parish has the opportunity to be a light shining on a hill, spreading light to all parts.

• For us it is opportunity
• Unity in diversity
• In our midst today: homeless, unemployed, elderly, disabled, immigrant, refugee, Hispanic; English speakers, Spanish speakers; Dutch, German, Irish, Polish, Mexican, Belgian descendants; parents grieving loss of children to death, sons and daughters grieving the loss of parents to deportation; people who have experienced division, separation, conflict and pain.

We are all here together because we have received the Holy Spirit who makes us ONE – we can be present to one another in unity – we are one in body, one in Spirit. Alleluia!