Pentecost Sunday Homily: Fr Vigoa — Transcript

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1. 0:03the Feast of Pentecost has always been
2. 0:05one of my favorite feast days of the
3. 0:08year it is today is the
4. 0:12final day of the Easter season tomorrow
5. 0:16we return back to ordinary
6. 0:20time last weekend many of you gave me
7. 0:22feedback on how much the homy helped you
8. 0:26and how much you enjoyed the story of
9. 0:28Pini well I thought this weekend I'd go
10. 0:31about the same
11. 0:33route I have a story for you about Pablo
12. 0:38Casal the great chist composer and
13. 0:45conductor in the last years of his life
14. 0:47he suffered greatly from rheumatoid
15. 0:50arthritis and from
16. 0:52enyma at age 90 he was badly stooped
17. 0:58over and his head pitched forward his
18. 1:00breathing was
19. 1:02labored he needed the help of his wife
20. 1:06Marta Marta to get dressed in the
21. 1:08morning and to move
22. 1:11about Marta would then help him Shuffle
23. 1:15into his Studio where he would with
24. 1:17great difficulty arrange himself behind
25. 1:21the piano
26. 1:22[Music]
27. 1:23bench Cal would then manage to raise his
28. 1:26swollen clenched fingers above on the
29. 1:31keyboard a visitor describes what he saw
30. 1:35next on a particular
31. 1:38morning I was not prepared for the
32. 1:40miracle that was about to
33. 1:43happen the finger slowly unlocked and
34. 1:46reached towards the keys like the buds
35. 1:49of a plant towards the
36. 1:52sunlight his back
37. 1:54straightened he seemed to breathe more
38. 1:57freely now his finger settled on the
39. 2:01keys then came the opening bars of box
40. 2:05Das vtin
41. 2:08clavia played with great sensitivity and
42. 2:13control he hummed as he played and then
43. 2:15he said boach spoke to him
44. 2:19there and he placed his hand over his
45. 2:23heart then he plunged into brum's conero
46. 2:26with his fingers now agile and Powerful
47. 2:29racing across the keyboards with
48. 2:32dazzling speed his entire body seemed to
49. 2:35fuse with the music it was no longer
50. 2:38stiff and shaken but s Supple and
51. 2:42graceful and completely freed of his
52. 2:45arthritic
53. 2:48coils having finished the piece he stood
54. 2:50up for him by himself far straighter and
55. 2:54taller than when he had first come into
56. 2:57the room he walked to the breakfast
57. 3:00table with no trace of a
58. 3:02shuffle ate heartily talk animely
59. 3:07finished his meal and then went for a
60. 3:09walk on the
61. 3:13beach Pentecost is the birthday of the
62. 3:19church on that day the father and the
63. 3:22son poured out the gift of the Holy
64. 3:24Spirit upon the
65. 3:27apostles transforming them from cowering
66. 3:31cowardly men into bold and courageous
67. 3:35Proclaimers of the
68. 3:37gospels within a generation from the day
69. 3:40of Pentecost the apostles carried the
70. 3:42faith as far as India to the east the
71. 3:46Apostle as far as Spain to the west and
72. 3:50everywhere in
73. 3:53between it's that transformation that's
74. 3:56most
75. 3:58compelling we need a ask ourselves what
76. 4:01changed those
77. 4:03men what inspired
78. 4:06them how could they go from one day
79. 4:09hiding from the Jews behind locked
80. 4:13doors to the next day openly proclaiming
81. 4:17the good news of Jesus Christ crucified
82. 4:19and risen what happened to
83. 4:23them well the answer is simple the gift
84. 4:27of the Holy Spirit
85. 4:30also what was it about the Christian
86. 4:33Proclamation the faith that they were
87. 4:34proclaiming that was so compelling
88. 4:38anyway how quickly the faith spread and
89. 4:41grew all through the Easter season we've
90. 4:43been reading from The Acts of the
91. 4:45Apostles we've see how the church
92. 4:51grew on that first Pentecost Sunday all
93. 4:54the followers of Jesus could easily fit
94. 4:57here in this church
95. 5:01within a
96. 5:03generation there were tens of thousands
97. 5:06of
98. 5:07Believers and today we cover the entire
99. 5:11Globe it's amazing to
100. 5:15contemplate on the natural level the
101. 5:17Christian faith doesn't offer much of
102. 5:20anything Jesus Promised his followers
103. 5:23nothing on
104. 5:25Earth in fact he told them that they
105. 5:27would have to take up their crosses
106. 5:29every day in order to be his
107. 5:32disciple that they would be hated and
108. 5:34persecuted as he
109. 5:37was that they would have to strictly
110. 5:40govern their natural impulses for
111. 5:42possessions pleasure power and
112. 5:47self-indulgence on the contrary his
113. 5:49followers have to daily die to
114. 5:52themselves to forget themselves and
115. 5:54serve others
116. 5:57generously they could not indulge in
117. 6:00hatred and revenge but instead had to
118. 6:02practice love and forgiveness even
119. 6:05towards enemies and many other
120. 6:10things though the pl that though the
121. 6:13path laid out by Christ leads to
122. 6:16Everlasting Bliss in heaven we know this
123. 6:19while on Earth he described the path as
124. 6:22narrow Steep and
125. 6:25difficult so on the natural level it
126. 6:28boggles the mind that our faith ever got
127. 6:30off the ground that it spread Beyond
128. 6:35Jerusalem there's a story of a famous
129. 6:37writer he gives he says that there was a
130. 6:40man who sat in the Town Square in
131. 6:42meditation and contemplation looking up
132. 6:45to the
133. 6:47heavens after about an hour a few people
134. 6:49came and joined him and were there in
135. 6:53contemplation and meditation looking up
136. 6:55at the
137. 6:58stars but after a couple hours almost
138. 7:01all of them left the man was there
139. 7:05alone the man of the story got up and
140. 7:08said man it's easy to start a religion
141. 7:12to maintain it it's a different
142. 7:16story the explanation for why our faith
143. 7:19has
144. 7:21survived is because of the Holy
145. 7:25Spirit it wasn't it was God himself who
146. 7:28came with his gifts and provided the
147. 7:30impetus for the work of spreading the
148. 7:33gospel and making Jesus Christ known
149. 7:35loved and
150. 7:37served that good work continues to this
151. 7:42day on this Feast of Pentecost we pray
152. 7:45for ourselves and for our parish for a
153. 7:49renewed outpouring of that same Holy
154. 7:52Spirit upon
155. 7:54us from scripture the church has
156. 7:56discerned Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit
157. 7:59seven gifts by which the Spirit guides
158. 8:02us through life to the joys of Life to
159. 8:06Come those gifts are wisdom
160. 8:09understanding counsel fortitude
161. 8:13knowledge piety and fear of the
162. 8:17Lord these are Supernatural
163. 8:20gifts far beyond anything we could
164. 8:22attain naturally from our own
165. 8:26efforts while we pray for them all today
166. 8:29maybe there's one in
167. 8:32particular you want to ask the holy
168. 8:35spirit
169. 8:38for those are the gifts of the Holy
170. 8:40Spirit the gifts granted to the apostles
171. 8:42on the day of Pentecost and the gifts we
172. 8:45might we pray might be renewed in each
173. 8:48and every one of us
174. 8:52today none of us wants to be ashamed of
175. 8:55our faith or to be fearful of making our
176. 8:58faith known known because none of us is
177. 9:01called to a mediocre
178. 9:04Faith deep down I believe this firmly
179. 9:07each one of us wants to have the faith
180. 9:09of
181. 9:11saints to have that faith we need the
182. 9:14gifts of the holy
183. 9:16spirit or we'll never get off the ground
184. 9:22spiritually we pray the Lord enlarge our
185. 9:25desire for his gifts that he enlarge our
186. 9:29capacity to receive
187. 9:32them so back to the story of our chalis
188. 9:35composer and
189. 9:37conductor for Cal's Beauty was the
190. 9:40Divine
191. 9:42incarnate our capacity to create Beauty
192. 9:45a manifestation of the divine within and
193. 9:48its perception a sacred
194. 9:51experience Supreme among forms of Beauty
195. 9:55for Casal was sound any sound whether na
196. 10:00Nature's wind waves or man's especially
197. 10:05music he was often quoted by saying I
198. 10:09find God in
199. 10:11music what is music God is
200. 10:15music creating performing or listening
201. 10:18to music was a spiritual act commission
202. 10:22communion with God through our own
203. 10:24Divine
204. 10:25gifts music has the power to inspire and
205. 10:29to Exhilarate us all like it did Paul
206. 10:33Cal but you see the spirit of God is the
207. 10:36melody that energizes the church and
208. 10:40ourselves uniting our many different
209. 10:43voices and talents into a song of love
210. 10:46for
211. 10:47God so my brothers and sisters on this
212. 10:50Pentecost Sunday we pray that God may
213. 10:53bring about in us that same
214. 10:55understanding of his spirit that same
215. 10:58trans transformation that same
216. 11:01inspiration that he gave to the apostles
217. 11:04on that first Pentecost Sunday we can
218. 11:07experience the same thing we need to ask
219. 11:11for
220. 11:12it and in his
221. 11:15grace with those gifts he can make us
222. 11:19faithful and courageous disciples amen