09/03/2026
“When the Church speaks about the Holy Spirit as wind—and fire—those words may sound very different to us [in Spokane] this year,” said Fr. JK Adams, S.J., Gonzaga Prep chaplain, in his homily for Gonzaga Prep’s Mass of the Holy Spirit. He reflected on how God doesn’t wait until everything is put back together or makes sense to enter in. The Spirit meets us in the chaos and the places where life has been wounded—and helps us begin to create again.
The Mass of the Holy Spirit is a Jesuit tradition dating back to the 1500s in Messina, Sicily, asking God’s blessing and the Spirit’s guidance for the school year ahead.
“Perhaps this year we can become signs of what another kind of wind can do—the wind of God’s Spirit moving through a community.”
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