Cate begins with a talk on death and how nothing here represents God and anything we idolize or seek in the world will be hurled into dust. There is nothing here that is changeless or eternal. This encourages us to let go of seeking for safety in the world.

Cate then invites anyone in the group to share that had an experience with the Christ blessing over the past week. There were many beautiful sharings. Gratitude to all who shared.

Cate and Shannon then read from page 83 of the Clarification of Terms #3. Forgiveness - The Face of Christ, to set up the remainder of the time where the Christ Blessing is shared together.
So much gratitude and love to everyone! xoxo

To begin and to set up the Christ Blessing, a way of knowing our brother and ourself as the holy Christ, Cate and Shannon read paragraphs 6 and 10 from A Course in Miracles (FIP version) from chapter 6, V, C. Be Vigilant Only for God and His Kingdom, the third lesson of the Holy Spirit.

Cate then reads this beautiful prayer from Lessons of the Holy Spirit section of the COA version of ACIM:
I have been unwilling to recognize that this quest is one of joy. Instead of reacting with anguish at times, and a feeling of frustration and futility, I will to see myself only as I truly am. Nothing else can matter but this. The Kingdom is entirely filled with peace and joy, and I am an essential part of it. Therefore, I must be unwilling to recognize what is already obvious, even in my conflicted state. I will only for God and His Kingdom. This is the only message that is meaningful, because it is my reality. All else is illusion. I will be helped as I offer help to others. I will know myself as I recognize my only true relationship with all my brothers.

Shannon then reads the prayer in lesson 262, Let me perceive no differences today.

The Christ Blessing is done with anyone who raised their hand. As we join with Jesus/Holy Spirit and say these words to our brother, we see our brother as the holy Son of God he is and in turn, recognize our holiness. The awareness of our holiness illuminates our mind as we allow the content the words are pointing to arise in our mind.

Jesus tells us that we can leave no brother out of this holiness so we release all grievances and ask to be shown the holiness in all. The sameness in all. To see All the same. God cannot have imperfections and neither can we because we were created by Him as perfect holy love. As we join in this message, we are given the experience of this truth and then we understand His Kingdom.
Blessings of Love & Gratitude,
Cate & Shannon

Cate covers the third and final lesson of the Holy Spirit, “Be vigilant only for God and His Kingdom”. Jesus tells us in this section, “This lesson is a major step toward fundamental change.” It is a decision to be consistently vigilant against the ego and to allow the Holy Spirit to sort out the true from the false in our mind.

“Choosing through the Holy Spirit will lead you to the Kingdom.”

The meditation is based on Lesson 124, “Let me remember I am one with God.” Paragraphs 1 and 8 are read before the half hour of silence. The focus is on remembering our oneness with God, trusting His Voice to speak to us as He sees fit.

Blessings of Love and Gratitude xoxo

In this talk, we see how this second lesson of the Holy Spirit is a PRACTICAL APPLICATION rather than a theology to be discussed. We are asked to "teach what we want to learn". This means we teach "our brother" that we are peaceful, by seeing his sinlessness. As we teach every brother, in every relationship, we come to see, that our mind is now completely at peace. The ego thought system is based purely on the "idea of separation" and thus, when we listen to that thought system, we teach our brother that we believe in attack and rejection and thus learn this false lesson over and over. The way to freedom, is to teach what we want to learn. We want to teach peace to learn it. We want to teach what will lead to the experience of peace, love and joy. If we want peace, we must teach our brother, that he is not an ego. We must overlook the ego and see beyond words and bodies, to the pure Christ. Cate reads from several sections of ACIM, to show students that the Holy Spirits lesson, is all the way through the course. Chapter 6, V, B To Have Peace, Teach Peace to Learn It paragraphs 1 and 2 Manual for Teachers, Introduction, (full section read) Workbook lesson 78 for the meditation - Let Miracles replace all grievances. I finish with a reading from Manual for Teachers, Section 3 - First paragraph which I will write here. "The teachers of God have no set teaching level. Each teaching-learning situation involves a different relationship at the beginning, although the ultimate goal is always the same: TO MAKE OF THE RELATIONSHIP A HOLY RELATIONSHIP, in which both can look upon the Son of God AS SINLESS". We can ask the Holy Spirit for help to see our brother sinless, if we find it difficult or too abstract to do. Sit quietly and ask for help. The meditation in this video is one way of practicing this "seeing his sinlessness". You can also, ask Jesus to come to you and ask him how he sees you. His answer, is the answer we are to give all our brothers. Jesus sees only our holiness because His Mind has been healed of false beliefs. He sees only our purity. We can join with Him and thus this can help us, to see our brother, as Jesus sees him. Everything works together for good. Jesus says that his course, is to undo the ego (awaken) through relationship. So, the Holy Spirits lesson is to teach through relationship - by getting us to teach our brothers that we remain peaceful no matter how viscous he may be, and thus we learn it. We teach our brother he is sinless, so we can learn we are sinless. We teach our brother he is holy, so we can learn we are holy. We teach our brother that he is perfect, so we can learn we are perfect. We teach our brother that he is not a body but he is the perfect creation of Love. Over and over, day in day out, using time to shift into timelessness, we use what the ego made (bodies, world) to come back to our holy home, as Mind. In this teaching, we will be taught, that the world we see is a hallucination in our mind - a silly dream - that only existed for a nano-second - onto an awareness, that there never was a dream.... that there never was a world of form and that there is only God. We finally realise that it is impossible to mis-create and that this world never was. Our way to this awareness, is to teach what we want to learn. So, every day should be devoted to miracles, Every day should be devoted to teaching our brother, what we are and what he is. This extends the miracle and joins us in the circle of atonement. Teach your brother that he cannot take God's love away from your heart. Extend and share God's love to him, by being completely defenceless and showing him that he is not what he thinks he is. In this practical application of the Holy Spirit's lesson, our mind comes to realise the truth that there is only God and nothing else exists. Blessings, Love Cate xxx

Cate takes the group through the text and an explanation of what this first lesson of the Holy Spirit asks us to do as a practical application.

To have all God's Love, Peace and Joy, Give all God's Love Peace and Joy to all.

There is a 40 minute experiential meditation at the end of the Satsang, where Cate takes everyone very gently and slowly through the application of the practice of the Holy Spirit's first lesson. You can do this meditation on its own, if you would like to start there, but I do recommend you read the text of this section before hand or listen to the reading of the text in the video.

The Holy Spirit's first lesson is clearly given to us in Chapter 6, V, paragraph 4, Line 7....

"Only ONE EQUAL GIFT can be offered to the EQUAL SONS OF GOD, and that is FULL APPRECIATION. Nothing more and nothing less. Without a range, order of difficulty is meaningless, and THERE MUST BE NO RANGE in what you offer to your brother."

So, we are asked to ONE EQUAL GIFT which is to offer full appreciation to EVERY SON OF GOD, without a range, without selecting ones we want to offer full appreciation to and excluding ones we don't want to give full appreciation to.

If we want peace, we must surrender to "not knowing" how to come to be peaceful and have the little willingness to practice this first lesson of the Holy Spirit. We have to let go of trying to understand how this lesson will bring us to peace. Remember, Jesus says, just "do only this" ..... so our job is to "do only the offering of full appreciation to every brother", and see how we feel. Its very simple. Do the exercise as he asks us to do it and validate for ourselves, if we feel any different from before we did the exercise.

In this validation, we can come to see that, our willingness to let go of the past and offer all our brothers, equally, full appreciation, we realise that we get filled up with the love and peace that we so desire.

If we step back and resign as our own teacher and follow these lessons of the Holy Spirit, we come closer to having the peace of God and thus, healing. This way, we naturally offer God's effortless pure love to all and our brother's mind receives the miracle of God's Love from us.

Blessings of holy love xxx

The group begins with extending love to each other and Cate explains how this is a good practice to get into no matter where we are or what we are doing.

Cate then shares some of the details about her awakening and how she didn’t even remember how to turn her computer on at work at first, but was eventually able to step back into the world to do things.
She then reminds everyone about checking in with the Course and what Jesus says if teachers are saying things that you’re not sure of. The Course always contains the truth and can be a guiding light during these times.

Cate and Shannon read through Lesson 133, I will not value what is valueless, bringing in practical examples. This lesson is asking us to really look at what we’re valuing and let it go. He gives us many pointers here to help us discern what is valuable. He tells us, “First, if you choose a thing that will not last forever, what you chose is valueless.” He goes on to explain, “A temporary value is without all value.” This brings us into a clear understanding in our sorting out of what is valuable and valueless in the development of trust.

“Each choice you make brings everything to you or nothing.”

We ask Holy Spirit/Jesus for the lesson and ask to be shown what we are valuing that is valueless and to see what is underneath of it, the meaning we have placed on what we are valuing. He knows what we are ready to see. He knows what we are ready to let go of. We can trust that.

A few minutes are given to explore the questions in paragraph 8 and this leads into meditation.
Blessings of Love & Gratitude to everyone! xoxo

Cate and Shannon begin with an announcement that The Holy Spirit Prayers of Gratitude prayer book is now available in paperback and ebook. They also share some of the background about the book and how it will be part of a series of prayer books that Cate received many years ago.

Cate then summarizes ACIM Lesson 108, To give and to receive are one in truth, and Shannon and Cate read this lesson commenting throughout.

It is in the experience of giving and receiving as one, the experience of giving peace of mind and receiving it in that same instant, that really firms up this truth in our mind. In paragraph 6, Jesus says, “To learn that giving and receiving are the same has special usefulness, because it can be tried so easily and seen as true.” The 40 minute meditation is focused on allowing this experience and Cate guides the first part of the meditation period and also the last five minutes.

Love and gratitude to ALL. xoxo

Cate begins with a request to put all of our focus on God’s Love. She emphasizes that perfect love casts out fear and by focusing on God’s Love, fear cannot be in our mind. When we are centered in the Mind of God, there is no ego. There is no fear.

In the Mind of God there are no words, but we use words to help shift into His Love.
Cate and Shannon then read through Lesson 50, I am sustained by the Love of God. Cate goes through each “replacement for the Love of God” in this lesson, giving examples. She uses the idea that we are circus monkeys trying to get our rotten peanut when we try to “get things” with the ego.
Cate has the group take a couple of minutes to search their mind for where they are still looking to the world to be sustained, to be happy.

The three ideas focused on during the 40 minute meditation are:
The Love of God is shining in me now
I am the Love of God
I am sustained by the Love of God

Cate provides a few more beautiful pointers to God’s Love after the meditation and then the group joins in gratitude for each other.
Gratitude and Love to everyone! Blessings

“It is quite possible to listen to God’s Voice all through the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way.”

Cate and Shannon read through this lesson together, bringing in the above first sentence of the lesson frequently with certainty and as a fact. This message is true for all.

The 40 minute meditation was focused on paragraphs 4 and 5, the "listening in deep silence" of this lesson.

After the meditation, Cate takes everyone through a practice of experiencing everything as love.
Blessings of Love & Gratitude!

The group begins by joining in a feeling of love, of opening our hearts and feeling them expand.
Cate then reads the lesson, God is the Strength in Which I Trust, slowly while expanding upon the message of this lesson and using a specific example as a practical application of following guidance.

The group is taken through the practice of the lesson and the 40 minute meditation focuses on paragraph 7 where Jesus asks us to “reach down into your mind to a place of real safety.”

Cate concludes with some further clarification this lesson. When our one desire is for the peace of God, we are dedicated to being miracle workers, and we seemingly still have “worldly” things to do, we receive guidance on what is best for all, to save time.

Gratitude and Love to all! Blessings!