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Where Is There Division in Your Life? | Pentecost Unity & Gratitude | Rise Up Day 50
Welcome to the final Rise Up video—Pentecost Sunday! Fr. Jonathan Meyer thanks you for pressing play all 96 days, walks us through the coming of the Holy Spirit, and challenges us to root out division in our hearts, families, and communities. Drawing on the image of the apostles in the upper room (and even a relic of the Twelve!), he contrasts Pentecost’s unity with the separation at Babel. In a year of unrest, we’re reminded that only the Spirit can heal the divisions that plague us.
🔹 Key Themes in This Video
• Pentecost Celebration & Gratitude: Thanking you for joining 96 days of reflections—from Ash Wednesday through Easter to today’s feast.
• Call to Support All Saints Parish: If these videos have blessed you, please consider a one-time donation at allsaintscatholic.net or Venmo @AllSaintsParish so we can continue producing Advent, Christmas, Lent, and “Alive” reflections throughout the year.
• Unity vs. Division: Reflecting on the apostles—misfits who were made one by the Spirit—and contrasting that with Babel’s scattering.
• A Relic of the Twelve: Handling bone fragments of Peter, James, John, and others (plus a piece of the True Cross) to show how sinners can become saints when healed by grace.
• Invitation to Examine Your Own Divisions: Write down the separations in your life—within your heart, family, parish, nation—and invoke the Holy Spirit to mend them.
• Final Blessing & Prayer: Fr. Meyer’s heartfelt prayer that these meditations have deepened your silence, love of Scripture, devotion to the Eucharist, and compassion for others.
❤️ Takeaway:
“Come, Holy Spirit. Spend some time today writing down the things in your life that are divided, and invoke the Holy Spirit to come into them.” On this Pentecost, may God’s gift of unity transform our brokenness into communion.
▶️ Watch Earlier Rise Up Reflections:
• Day 1: “What Is Your One Thing?”
• Day 25: “Are You Willing?”
• …
• Day 49: “Where Do You Go for Rest?”
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