By Way of the Heart

Dear children of Mary,

You would have heard and read about the latest supplementary budget provided by the Singapore government to support businesses and workers in making transitions to adapt, transform and seize new opportunities. Interestingly, they have named this budget “Fortitude”, or courage, which is one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.

In fact, our Heavenly Father has always prepared a “budget” of an even greater scale around this time of the year for the entire Church and her people. The name of this “budget” is Pentecost, where the Holy Spirit is outpoured lavishly upon us! The apostles, with Mary, being filled with the Holy Spirit came out from hiding in the upper room, boldly stood in front of the crowd and with great courage, proclaimed Christ crucified. In Acts of the Apostles, we hear that this same crowd were “cut to the heart” upon hearing this…