On this Baccalaureate Sunday for St. John's School, Fr. Houk addresses the graduating 8th grade class (and all who want to listen in), encouraging them to continue in what they’ve been given in their St. John’s education: worship that forms a heart in loving what is good and true and beautiful.
Pentecost is the birthday of the Church, the day on which the apostles received the empowering Holy Spirit and then were sent out on a mission to change the world.
On the night before he faced the cross, Jesus put everything into the Father’s hands, inlcuding us. Our lukewarm attitude to prayer might be overcome if we put everything in God's hands as well.