Trinity 7 - Purity: a day of devotion to the Holy Spirit

The topic today is purity:

• Both the Epistle and Gospel speak of
• Keeping oneself pure - in heart and mind.
• Purified through the life revealed by Christ:
• Sanctified and blessed by the Holy Father
• And by trust in the living Trinity

Keep our hearts unspotted from the world:

• The Holy Spirit, being Divine, is Truth
• Divine Truth is synonymous with Love.
• When we connect with ourselves and others
• With love and honesty, with simplicity,
• Innocence and naturalness - 
• We are manifesting purity & expressing the Divine
• And not our small self, our ego

That Holy Spirit:

• Is always gently nudging us
• To honor and accept the divinity 
• Operating within ourselves and
• Within each person and situation

Like to be able to give you a formula for purity

• But it’s different for each of us
• We each create our own world and the
• Temptations and challenges we have to face.

A life of purity can be lived in the world

• Because all that is in the world: 
• Is, in fact, not different from that Pure Life Divine

We have to find our own personal way:

• to use the world, to see the people and situations as
• Opportunities to purify our heart and mind
• So we see behind the veil the world/ego presents
• To find the fullness of the Divine Trinity everywhere

The Good Samaritan kept coming up while preparing:

• Purity is associated with not judging others
• If we judge others by looks or behavior or politics, or anything really,
• We are like the people in the Good Samaritan who
• Left the naked and beaten man on the other side
• Because he was not of their tribe, or a different color
• Or some other factor with which they did not agree.
• But the Samaritan saw only a man beaten and naked
• Who needed help. In helping he kept his heart
• Pure from the feelings the others used to justify
• Their inaction.

Eucharist - mystical vehicle for us to hone our attention: 

• to acknowledge, renew & enliven our 
• connection with the Supreme Lord through Christ.
• A connection that is never lost – 
• Simply lost track of in the whirlwinds of life