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19 mag 2024
19/05/2024 - Pentecost - B

19/05/2024 - Pentecost - B

1st reading Acts 2,1-11 from Psalm 103 2nd reading Gal 5,16-25 Gospel Jn 15,26-27; 16,12-15

Come Holy Spirit, send us from heaven a ray of your light! So we pray today together with the whole Church. We know that the Holy Spirit has been poured out upon us, but we continue to invoke his coming, because we know that we are like pierced vessels, unable to hold all that we receive.

We are still and always sinners, so the Spirit of God often does not remain in our hearts and members. Our selfishness and sinfulness sadden the Holy Spirit, because we prevent him from shining God's holiness into our lives. We therefore continue to ask him: Come, come to heal, to wash, to purify, come to straighten, to warm, come to replace our worldly and superficial spirits.

St Paul, writing to the Galatians, has clearly instructed us for discernment, so that we know how to welcome the Spirit of God with our will, decisively rejecting everything that keeps him away from us. He tells us that the desires of the flesh hinder the Spirit. The desires of the flesh lead to satisfy the instincts of greed, gluttony, sensuality, power, and these hinder love, that is, the presence and work of God. It is only the Holy Spirit who manifests and communicates to us the truth of God, pure and free love.

Indeed, the Spirit's presence in us produces "love, joy, peace, magnanimity, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control". None of these fruits harm man, on the contrary, they build him up and make him ready to live in communion with others and thus build up the Church, the building in which God can welcome all peoples.

Come, Holy Spirit! Every day in us the world brings some victory, every day our selfishness peeps through our desires and our words. Let us therefore continue to call upon the Spirit of the Lord. Jesus has promised it and will send it.

The Spirit comes from the Father, he is love therefore, and Jesus sends him to us as the Paraclete and as the Spirit of truth. As the Paraclete he will assist us in every situation of weakness. To live as children of the Father and as disciples of Jesus we need strength, consolation, exhortation, defence, support. The Spirit is the Paraclete, that is, he is a travelling companion, called to accompany and support us in every situation where we are weak and incapable. He is also the Spirit of truth, because he makes our actions, and our being, the manifestation of him whom no one can see, who is hidden because he dwells in heaven. In fact, the Holy Spirit realises works of love in us and through us, attitudes that communicate love, words that make the Father's love alive and relevant.

Jesus would like to say many things to his disciples and would like what he has already said to remain ever present in their memory. However, they are not yet ready to understand and accept the mystery of God's will, that mystery that holds the cross at its centre. Therefore Jesus entrusts the Spirit with the task of reminding them and instructing their hearts when necessary. He will "guide us into all truth" and "tell all that he has heard", "take from what is mine and proclaim it to you". Jesus can go in peace, without regrets, because, even if his own are not yet well formed and secure, the Spirit will come to assist them in the various and difficult circumstances of history.

Today, we can be certain of the presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church. We need only look at its history. In the most difficult times, when it seemed that the Church was about to succumb even to internal difficulties, or to the sin of its most influential members, or to divisions and the presence of violence and discord, it was precisely then that holiness and the newness of an evangelical life flourished. L

he history of the Church is indeed a history steeped and coloured by human sin, but above all it is a history of new people, movements and works that manifest the presence of God and the tenderness of Jesus. The Spirit of God continues to guide the Church, continues to draw to it children of God from all peoples, continues to stir in hearts and initiatives the holiness of the Father and his mercy.

With the coming of the Spirit upon the disciples of Jesus, a change entered the world. Luke says this when he states that they all heard in their own tongues the great works of God. Astonishment is the first consequence, but astonishment turns into listening, and then into decision. The great works of God culminate in the death and resurrection of Jesus: whoever hears this news is moved by the Spirit to unite with the Son of God, to enjoy his love and to unite with him to love the whole world. Come, Holy Spirit!

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