+ Today is the 6th Day in the Novena to the Holy
Spirit week, and in
ways great and small the Holy Spirit may be preparing each of us differently to
celebrate the remembrance of the Birth Day of the Church – Pentecost – when the
Holy Spirit was sent from the Father and the Son – and history has never been
the same.
As we look around our country
and the world today we can see that the disarray is at an all-time fever pitch
– and this, no longer in pre-Internet, speed of delivering news – but in the
almost irreversible decay and demise of basic morals and sacred principles and
natural laws that all derive from the supernatural law to which we are all
bound to observe one way or another.
St. Paul is addressing the
church of Ephesus in the first reading today from the Acts of the Apostles – and
he is exhorting them that no matter what “savage wolves” may come among them they
are to remain steadfast in what they have been taught, but more so what they
have experienced of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit with its array of gifts:
for the transformative power of the Spirit is contagious and wonderful!
A quick side not here: it is
interesting that the Salvation Clock, if you will is reset on Pentecost Day –
the Day of the Launching out into the deep of the World – the Bark of Peter –
the Mystical Body of Christ – the Church: a living, supernatural living,
breathing family of royal bothers and sisters. What came before is now over and
accomplished – CONVERSION is now possible – and willing persons can leave
behind their contrary and even sinful pasts – and they can literally start all
over again in Christ.
This happened to St. Paul, by
special invitation, when he was knocked off his horse and questioned by the
Risen Jesus. The point here being, when once we, any and all of us, grasp the
“salvific life saver” that God sends our way – we can literally BEGIN AGAIN –
in our moral understandings, practices and teachings for other people! And what
is better news, is that we can begin again each and every morning! because the
decision for Christ – once made fervently and strongly – because of our human
weakness needs to be renewed and refreshed every day. This is precisely why
daily prayer – all day long to some degree prayer – and daily Mass is essential
for those who can find time in their schedule to attend.
Come, Holy Spirit, renew
within us your Spirit, your gifts, your encouragement and we plunge into the
pool of daily life today! Because you are indeed with us – we can expect great
and unexpected things to happen the more we let go and let you have your way!
Amen.
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