LIFE IN THE SPIRIT SEMINAR

Nigerian Community at St. Katherine Drexel Parish

June 29 – July 1, 2007

At the request of Father Anselm Nwagbara, a team from the CRS Boston Service Committee organized a Life in the Spirit Seminar for the Nigerian community at St. Katherine Drexel Parish in Roxbury.

Each session started with sung praise to God led by the parish music ministers.

We learned that God loves us and wants us to have a full and abundant life close to him.

But sin separates us from the life that God intends for us.

Jesus came to break the hold sin has on us.

Moreover, Jesus sent God’s own Holy Spirit to give us the gifts we need to come to him.

A whole new life close to God waits for us.

We have only to ask God in faith and he will send the Holy Spirit.

Seminar attendees renewed their Baptismal promises and asked for a fresh outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit.

This baptism in the Spirit is a continuing process in our lives.

We need to use Christian community, prayer, study, and service as means to help us live the Gospel message each day and grow in the Holy Spirit’s gifts.