I rejoice in our forthcoming pilgrimage. My conviction is the TLIG messages to the church are from God and express his desire for spiritual renewal and the recovery of visible unity. The Holy Spirit is his greatest gift, fresh awareness of whom is lifting the church more into God’s love, helping believers ‘taste God’s sweetness’ and be made more winsome evangelists. A central TLIG message envisages the three main branches of the church – Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant – as three metal bars that need bending and uniting together by the white heat of the Spirit.  Until this happens – and it could happen a lot faster than people imagine – God is saying his work of fully reconciling the world to himself is being held back. As we plan our journeys to Jerusalem Vassula’s call from the Lord has echoes of St Francis: ‘Revive my house, embellish my house and unite my house’.  May our pilgrimage, true to the messages, be a call to humility and love, prayer for the conversion of the world, holiness and fearless witness to the revelation of God as Trinity.