Adult Ministry

God, who creates and conserves all things by his Word, provides men with constant evidence of himself in created realities. And furthermore, wishing to open up the way to heavenly salvation, he manifested himself to our first parents from the very beginning. He invited them to intimate communion with himself and clothed them with resplendent grace and justice...This revelation was not broken off by our first parents’ sin. After the fall, [God] buoyed them up with the hope of salvation, by promising redemption; and he has never ceased to show his solicitude for the human race. For he wishes to give eternal life to all those who seek   salvation by patience in well-doing….Again and again you offered a covenant to man.”     CCC 54-55
 

“This one, at last, is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of ‘her man’ this one has been taken. That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one flesh.”            Genesis 2:23-24
 

St. John Paul II Reflection on Genesis 2:23:
“In the light of this text, we understand that knowledge of humanity passes through masculinity and femininity. These are, as it were, two ‘incarnations’ of the same metaphysical solitude before God and the world. They are two ways of ‘being a body’ and at the same time a human, which complete each other… femininity finds itself, in a sense, in the presence of masculinity, while masculinity is confirmed through femininity… the presence of the feminine element, alongside the male element, and together with it, signifies an enrichment for man in the whole perspective of his history, including the history of salvation.”
 

“Now two men, one named Eldad and the other Medad, were not in the gathering but had been left in the camp. They too had been on the list, but had not gone out to the tent; yet the spirit came to rest on them also, and they prophesied in the camp.”  - Numbers 11:26
 

 

“...many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: ‘the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements.’ Christ’s Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation, whose power derives from the fullness of grace and truth that Christ has trusted to the Catholic Church. All these blessings come from Christ and lead to him, and are in themselves calls to ‘Catholic     unity’...Christ bestowed unity on his Church from the beginning. This unity, we believe, subsists in the Catholic Church as something she can never lose, and we hope that it will continue to increase until the end of time.”                                                                                                                     CCC 819-820
 

The Holy Spirit is busy at work in extending Christ’s Redeeming power to all of creation. While He is powerfully present in the Sacramental Life of the Church, the Holy Spirit is also at work throughout the world in other churches and religions, flowing from the side of Christ, through His Bride, the Church, to all of  humanity. The goal is to bring all together in unity and to unite all things to Christ. How are we each helping the Holy Spirit in this great mission of unity and redemption?                                                                                                                                            ~Theresa