“My Lord, my God, my heavenly King,
as we near Pentacost Sunday, my thoughts focus on the gift of the Holy Spirit.
I don’t fully understand it, but I am very grateful for this gift You freely
give to all humanity. I can’t imagine what it must have been like for Your
beloved apostles and Your blessed Mother to watch You ascend to heaven. They must
have been filled with emotions of awe, joy, and splendor mixed with sadness,
longing, hope and a great sense of reverence. The sense of hope must have been
the strongest though because that is what keeps us looking to the future and
the promise of us all being together once again.
“You know the longing in our hearts
and minds so You didn’t leave us as orphans, You sent the Holy Spirit, the
Paraclete, the Advocate, to guide us, to shape us, to permeate our souls and to
be with us at all times as we live out our lives on earth. The Holy Spirit
unites us and forms us into one body, the Church, and unites us to You and
through You, to the Father. The Holy Spirit inflames our souls with the great
love that flows through the Trinity. My feeble mind cannot clearly define how
the Holy Spirit works or what exactly it does but my burning heart longs for You
through the Holy Spirit. I am enlightened and strengthened by the Holy Spirit
every day as He reveals Your presence in everything I encounter.
“Oh Holy Spirit, blow through my
heart and soul, open all my inner senses and inflame me with holy passion. Make
us all one and may our hearts beat as one holy Catholic and apostolic Church
that loves, honors and glorifies our Lord, our God, our heavenly King.”
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