FROM FATHER PHILLIP

Interim Administrator

You Are My Friends The Third Sunday of Lent -The Spirit Teaches WE READ AGAIN AND AGAIN in the Hebrew Bible the wonderful stories that have fired our imagination (perhaps with a little help from Hollywood). We enjoy the familiar tales, we meet new charters it seems we have not met before, we discover new twists. All of these things, good or bad, Saint Paul reminds us, have been written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to give us an example. This is why we keep going back to the Bible. Our Friend teaches us through the events of old and the lessons sewn among them. How much we can learn about his compassion, his tolerance, his forgiveness, his unending love! And then in the last days, he himself came to speaks to us. This is why the Gospels are most precious to us. Here our Friend speaks to us through his own mouth and through the events of his own human life. God is so very far beyond us, yet in the pages of the Bible he draws near to us. Lord, help us to appreciate the Scriptures more and to go eagerly to them to get to know you better to appreciate your love for us more and more.