The Spirit will teach us to listen to one another actively, keep God’s word faithfully, and love God and brothers and sisters deeply. This is how we can make the Christian life beautiful without burdening souls. The most enriching phrase today is, “For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials”.
It is very hard to love like Christ, yet this is the command given to us: Love one another as I have loved you, not like yourself, as found in the Old Testament, Leviticus. 19:18. However, it is not impossible to love as he did because he has shown us “how” to love.
Christ is my Good Shepherd, and Pope Leo XIV is his representative on earth and Pastor of his Church! Habemus Papam! What a beautiful moment in the history of our Church, a season, our Resurrected Christ, the Good Shepherd, blesses us with a new Pope: the Chief Pastor of His Church!
The resurrection power of Christ over the devil, evil, sins and death is actively alive in the faith community. The post-resurrection or Pentecostal faith community lived out and witnessed the Risen Christ’s power amidst persecution.