Come and
worship. Come as you are. Do not come as you wish you were. And once you come
to Church, allow God to surprise you with his everlasting grace and love. You
do not need to be rich to come to church. You do not need to be holy to come to
church. God will enrich your life whenever you receive the Sacrament of his
Life, Death, and Resurrection. Your soul will be transformed not by the power
of preaching – as good as it may be – or any particular expression of the
Christian faith, for God is not Baptist or Episcopal or Roman Catholic. You
will be transformed by the power of Holy Spirit working in you and through you.
However, like Joseph and Mary, and Simeon and Anna – rather than clinching
to that that is familiar and known, rather than holding to the past just
because it is old – allow yourself to hold on
to the future, secure in God’s loving hands.
Fr Gustavo
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