Completion of the series "One must always pray."
"And behold I am with you always ..."
we believe it? Do we feel really that "favored"?
"If I do not go away, will come not even the Comforter to you. ... If I go away but then is he, the Spirit the truth ... He will guide you into all truth "(Jn 16.7 to 13). Let us take these words as a promise? Or just as pious consolation? As a nice fairy tale? Or do we believe it is true?
Qui diceris Paraclitus - Come, Comforter, which draws the heart. This comforter this spirit of truth, this Companion, we are announcing the - we have become ever aware of His presence?
" He it is who we can call: Abba, Father " (Romans 8:15). But how many times we have been really satisfied that we have a father? How many times have we actually felt as sons of God as sons and daughters? Without Him nothing would be the religion as a set of obligations without the possibility of becoming a hollow prayer, sacraments ineffective, a boring show, content and pointless. He is the one who cost us the things of God, Check the taste to leave them. But we relish them?
"O God, who hast enlightened the hearts of the faithful by the breath of the Holy Spirit, give us through this same spirit of the lasting taste in things God and the constant joy in the presence of the Comforter Spirit, through Jesus Christ our Lord. " (Prayer to the Holy Spirit.)
Only the children of the house have the desire to know everything that goes on in the house. The Strangers do not take care of this. But the sons and daughters are interested in everything that happens in the father. If we are not the spirit (of childhood) have God, then the things of God are of no interest to us. They "tell" us anything. How many Christians do not like the people that St. Paul undertook to convert to confess: "We have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit" They called him by name, for sure, hundreds of times have, and that "Amen," So be it, "set behind it. But have you ever considered that they spoke of the fountain of life itself? The fact that they just mentioned, is exactly the same is that they had opened up the lips so that they could call him at all? Do these cooled people to be invited in as cold sermons, "her Easter keeping," ever heard that there is a Holy Spirit - a spirit of love, of the change, compassion, joy, fraternal solidarity - in the incorporated, with which they are to combine, they will keep forever with the others, in one body? That this is the same church? That you just find this spirit in order to have "kept Easter" really? When St. Paul this "life of the mind " (Life of the Spirit) the " life of the flesh " opposes (Romans 8.9-14), he explains the fact that it is impossible to belong to Christ without changing our normal lives. "If Christ is not a spirit, he does not belong to Him."
The Holy Spirit is the origin and source of the incarnation of Christ in every Christian, as He has been originating and source of the Incarnation of Christ in the womb of the Virgin Mary. That the Holy Spirit dwells in us, as true as the incarnation of Christ. The historical incarnation of Jesus continues and culminates in a spiritualization of all humanity.
Pentecost has revealed that God is not for thirty-three years, but is always made flesh. He that what makes his life (that is, His Spirit of Love), shares with us forever. Pentecost - that is the prelude to the irrevocable, perpetual presence of Christ here in the world. And where is He? In the humanity of each one of us. There He is now continuing his work - the work of the Incarnation, the Redemption. Incarnation of God, salvation of the World. That the spirit of Jesus lives in our hearts, is probably more significant than the historical incarnation. Pentecost seems to be a g Ewalt event than Christmas. For in the Incarnation - God became man as we, God is a human. At Pentecost but the people are called to be "God." God has reduced inclined not only to us, but He also wants us to raise up to Him. The revelation of the Gei stes is much grander, more prominent than that of the son. The Incarnation of the Son was in the dark, at night, in a stall.
Pentecost but burst like a bomb into the middle of the day, and hundreds of people witnessed this transformation. This was not God who was in distress and suffering to the people, but a whole crowd of men who, flooded with light and full of delight "God" are. "You will do greater things than I": Jesus thinks of the church, if he predicts this. The uniquely original work of the Spirit is the Church. "If you knew the gift of God!" This gift is the Church. altissimi donu m Dei - assistance which gives the father. God to man in man. Connected to the people. What is the best that God has? His spirit (of love). He joins us. He lets us participate in Him. And by the merger of those who have received Him, arises and grows the church. When Jesus tells us that He will send His spirit of love, He withdraws not, but promises us that links us most closely with him.
Where will we find Him? Where we have to find him? The father had been revealed in the Old Testament. He was betrayed misunderstood. "After he several times to our fathers had spoken through the prophets," But Jerusalem killed the prophets: " They beat the one, the others killed and the third they stoned. Finally, he sent his son to them "(Mt 21.35-37). The son has been revealed in the New Testament, and when He revealed Himself, He revealed the Father (" Who sees Me, sees the Vate r"). Then finally we were the Holy Spirit - in church - sent. He reveals to us the Father and the Son, and His own power of love - the spirit of sonship (Romans 8:15) - which reveals to us the Trinity, not just us into it. " Father, You in Me and I in them " said Jesus, after He had announced to the Holy Spirit. And indeed, this is the work the Holy Spirit: " that they are one, like you and me, Father, are one " (Jn 17:11).
And that is the task of the Church, all those who speak like Maria her "Fiat" means that the word is in their flesh. Most of those in which a "new man" through the Holy Spirit was received. Because they are ready. Because they can be distinguished from that spirit of sharing and pack of love. The spirit of communion.
The Holy Spirit is the giver of life of the Church, her Spiritus rector. He it is who they constantly re-creates them "from all four winds," her tireless collected. He is the one who despite all obstacles means that there are people who love each other, " grieve the Holy Spirit, in which ye are sealed on the day of salvation ... Be kind and compassionate to one another rather forgive each other and "(Eph 4,30.32). " All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God " (Romans 8:14). Anyone from the community of brothers - the spirit of community - keeps is not son. Wherever two or three are gathered in His name, He is among them. In His name - that is to say, in His Spirit. It is always the same tone: ". Father, that they may be one as We are one - one in Us," It is not a valid community as you. And there is no valid agreement with you than with community. To many. Closely connected.
"And ye shall know that I am the Lord ... if I give you My Spirit, that their lives and grant you peace in your land." (Liturgy of Holy Saturday) This quiet, that's the joy of Pentecost - in contrast to the confusion at the Tower of Babel - the joy of Pentecost, at that people with a blow to true love, for true mutual understanding are awakened. And that means that helps us to understand the neighbors? Love. "Each one heard them speaking in his native language." It is not as a linguistic tour de force, but the charity is to us so walk that everyone got along, loved, happy, feels close to us. "You know what spirit you are!"
One must be careful that we called the "Comforter" one gives the Holy Spirit, not in favor of our individualism (that is our sin) falsified. When Christ was still together with his apostles, the apostles were shaken up a lot more often, "comforted" as. The consolation is the mutual love. It is not a question, every time we "hurt" about the "ingratitude" of our brothers are still resorting to a small, discreet chapel and there to complain to the Lord that the Holy Spirit comforts us about our lack of love . We go to the Holy Spirit (of love) only by love. The consolation of the Holy Spirit is giving us constantly and always again gives the power to love. His work is not to this or to enlighten those but to revive and build up the Body of Christ. The conditions for the gift and the power of the Holy Spirit Community provides essential. It is involved in the mutual love of the believers as the Spirit of love and of fraternal unity. The Holy Spirit, who turns to the Father the Son and the Son of the Father, must also turn our attention today. How difficult it is for us to find the worship of a God made flesh ready! When you sing the Credo, one bends at the words "and became man." "Homo factus est" - "God made man." He is ... this neighbor has become, which is too close, as we may pray well. But what value is our prayer, when we turn our backs to him in order to seek Him where He is not: in our solitary confinement, in our spiritual inwardness, "Jesus and me in a bottle." Corked Good! We Magnify bt her face in her hands to comfortably enjoy their personal little holy spirit. Happily these deaf blind! You do not hear the unpleasant calls this meat, which is but may not be quite sure that the word was tied up in it. Still kneeling, if one says to the Whit Fair: "Veni Sancte Spiritus tui amoris est ... in ice ignem Accende. "- Come Holy Spirit ... and kindle in them the fire of your love.
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