DOMINUM ET VIVIFICANTEM - S.J.PAUL II- The Holy Spirit does not cease to be the guardian of hope in the human heart: the hope of all human creatures, and especially of those who "have the first fruits of the Spirit" and "wait for the redemption of their bodies".[291]
The Holy Spirit, in his mysterious bond of divine communion with the Redeemer of man, is the one who brings about the continuity of his work: he takes from Christ and transmits to all, unceasingly entering into the history of the world through the heart of man. Here he becomes as the liturgical Sequence of the Solemnity of Pentecost proclaims the true " father of the poor, giver of gifts, light of hearts"; he becomes the "sweet guest of the soul", whom the Church unceasingly greets on the threshold of the inmost sanctuary of every human being. For he brings "rest and relief" in the midst of toil, in the midst of the work of human hands and minds; he brings "rest" and "ease" in the midst of the heat of the day, in the midst of the anxieties, struggles and perils of every age; he brings " consolation", when the human heart grieves and is tempted to despair.
And therefore the same Sequence exclaims: "Without your aid nothing is in man, nothing is without fault". For only the Holy Spirit "convinces concerning sin", concerning evil, in order to restore what is good in man and in the world: in order to " renew the face of the earth ". Therefore, he purifies from everything that "disfigures" man, from "what is unclean"; he heals even the deepest wounds of human existence; he changes the interior dryness of souls, transforming them into fertile fields of grace and holiness. What is "hard he softens", what is "frozen he warms", what is "wayward he sets anew" on the paths of salvation.[292]
Praying thus, the Church unceasingly professes her faith that there exists in our created world a Spirit who is an uncreated gift. He is the Spirit of the Father and of the Son: like the Father and the Son he is uncreated, without limit, eternal, omnipotent, God, Lord
--->This Spirit of God " fills the universe ", and all that is created recognizes in him the source of its own identity, finds in him its own transcendent expression, turns to him and awaits him, invokes him with its own being. Man turns to him, as to the Paraclete, the Spirit of truth and of love, man who lives by truth and by love, and who without the source of truth and of love cannot live. To him curs the Church, which is the heart of humanity, to implore for all and dispense to all those gifts of the love Which through him "has been poured into our hearts.[294] To him turns the Church, along the intricate paths of man's pilgrimage on earth: she implores, she unceasingly implores uprightness of human acts, as the Spirit's work; she implores the joy and consolation that only he, the true Counselor, can bring by coming down into people's inmost hearts; [295] the Church implores the grace of the virtues that merit heavenly glory, implores eternal salvation, in the full communication of the divine life, to which the Father has eternally a predestined" human beings, created through love in the image and likeness of the Most Holy Trinity.
The Church with her heart which embraces all human hearts implores from the Holy Spirit that happiness which only in God has its complete realization: the joy "that no one will be able to take away",[296] the joy which is the fruit of love, and therefore of God who is love; she implores "the righteousness, the peace and the joy of the Holy Spirit" in which, in the words of Saint Paul, consists the Kingdom of God.[297]
Peace too is the fruit of love: that interior peace, which weary man seeks in his inmost being; that peace besought by humanity, the human family, peoples, nations, continents, anxiously hoping to obtain it in the prospect of the transition from the second to the third Christian Millennium. Since the way of peace passes in the last analysis throughh loveand seeks to create the civilization of love, the Church fixes her eyes on him who is the love of the Father and the Son, and in spite of increasing dangers she does not cease to trust, she does not cease to invoke and to serve the peace of man on earth. Her trust is based on him who, being the Spirit-love, is also the Spirit of peace and does not cease to be present in our human world, on the horizon of minds and hearts, in order to "fill the universe" with love and peace.
S. FAUSTI - Jesus with His going away, He becomes the Pontiff between us and God, the intercessor brother near the Father : He opens to us the access to Him and to His gifts. Jesus asks the Father for us the definitive gift .He gets everything He ask . Indeed the Comforter certainly is given to us. We pray not for He give It to us, but so that we prepare ourself to receive It. "Comforter" means to be with someone who is alone, so that he is no longer alone .The Comforter is the One who is "with" us, offering to us the company that wins our radical solitude. Its features are described through Its actions: It is "with" us forever,It is "the Spirit of truth," Who dwells near us in Jesus, It will be "in us" after his going away, It will teach to us and will they remember what He said. The Holy Spirit will teach us and will impress on our heart the Son. It's the inner Master, which makes us "all educated by God." God That before was with us in the Law and then next to us in the flesh of the Son ,It will be in us with Its Spirit, the Love that makes everything know. With the departure of Jesus the Revelation was accomplished : the Son expressed the Father's face. But only those who love , they are able to know. The Love, as it makes understand, so It makes re-member, to bring-in-the heart everything that Jesus said, we could live for this. Jesus said and gave everything. Everything Jesus said when he was among us, will be made us understand and remember by the Spirit. Jesus does not abandon us, but He makes the sense of his coming among us. He gives to us His peace and His joy, the fruits of the Spirit of Love. The Holy Spirit will not add anything to that He has revealed and given: It will instead enter ever more deeply in us the mystery of the Son and of the Father, with a love that makes known to us and a knowledge that makes love.
Gospel of today Jn 21:15-19 Feed my lambs, feed my sheep. After Jesus had revealed himself to his disciples and eaten breakfast with them, he said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He then said to Simon Peter a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was distressed that he had said to him a third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Amen, amen, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to dress yourself and go where you wanted; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
DOMINUM ET VIVIFICANTEM - S.J.PAUL II- The Holy Spirit does not cease to be the guardian of hope in the human heart: the hope of all human creatures, and especially of those who "have the first fruits of the Spirit" and "wait for the redemption of their bodies".[291]
RispondiEliminaThe Holy Spirit, in his mysterious bond of divine communion with the Redeemer of man, is the one who brings about the continuity of his work: he takes from Christ and transmits to all, unceasingly entering into the history of the world through the heart of man. Here he becomes as the liturgical Sequence of the Solemnity of Pentecost proclaims the true " father of the poor, giver of gifts, light of hearts"; he becomes the "sweet guest of the soul", whom the Church unceasingly greets on the threshold of the inmost sanctuary of every human being. For he brings "rest and relief" in the midst of toil, in the midst of the work of human hands and minds; he brings "rest" and "ease" in the midst of the heat of the day, in the midst of the anxieties, struggles and perils of every age; he brings " consolation", when the human heart grieves and is tempted to despair.
And therefore the same Sequence exclaims: "Without your aid nothing is in man, nothing is without fault". For only the Holy Spirit "convinces concerning sin", concerning evil, in order to restore what is good in man and in the world: in order to " renew the face of the earth ". Therefore, he purifies from everything that "disfigures" man, from "what is unclean"; he heals even the deepest wounds of human existence; he changes the interior dryness of souls, transforming them into fertile fields of grace and holiness. What is "hard he softens", what is "frozen he warms", what is "wayward he sets anew" on the paths of salvation.[292]
Praying thus, the Church unceasingly professes her faith that there exists in our created world a Spirit who is an uncreated gift. He is the Spirit of the Father and of the Son: like the Father and the Son he is uncreated, without limit, eternal, omnipotent, God, Lord
--->This Spirit of God " fills the universe ", and all that is created recognizes in him the source of its own identity, finds in him its own transcendent expression, turns to him and awaits him, invokes him with its own being. Man turns to him, as to the Paraclete, the Spirit of truth and of love, man who lives by truth and by love, and who without the source of truth and of love cannot live. To him curs the Church, which is the heart of humanity, to implore for all and dispense to all those gifts of the love Which through him "has been poured into our hearts.[294] To him turns the Church, along the intricate paths of man's pilgrimage on earth: she implores, she unceasingly implores uprightness of human acts, as the Spirit's work; she implores the joy and consolation that only he, the true Counselor, can bring by coming down into people's inmost hearts; [295] the Church implores the grace of the virtues that merit heavenly glory, implores eternal salvation, in the full communication of the divine life, to which the Father has eternally a predestined" human beings, created through love in the image and likeness of the Most Holy Trinity.
RispondiEliminaThe Church with her heart which embraces all human hearts implores from the Holy Spirit that happiness which only in God has its complete realization: the joy "that no one will be able to take away",[296] the joy which is the fruit of love, and therefore of God who is love; she implores "the righteousness, the peace and the joy of the Holy Spirit" in which, in the words of Saint Paul, consists the Kingdom of God.[297]
Peace too is the fruit of love: that interior peace, which weary man seeks in his inmost being; that peace besought by humanity, the human family, peoples, nations, continents, anxiously hoping to obtain it in the prospect of the transition from the second to the third Christian Millennium. Since the way of peace passes in the last analysis throughh loveand seeks to create the civilization of love, the Church fixes her eyes on him who is the love of the Father and the Son, and in spite of increasing dangers she does not cease to trust, she does not cease to invoke and to serve the peace of man on earth. Her trust is based on him who, being the Spirit-love, is also the Spirit of peace and does not cease to be present in our human world, on the horizon of minds and hearts, in order to "fill the universe" with love and peace.
S. FAUSTI - Jesus with His going away, He becomes the Pontiff between us and God, the intercessor brother near the Father : He opens to us the access to Him and to His gifts. Jesus asks the Father for us the definitive gift .He gets everything He ask .
RispondiEliminaIndeed the Comforter certainly is given to us.
We pray not for He give It to us, but so that we prepare ourself to receive It.
"Comforter" means to be with someone who is alone, so that he is no longer alone .The Comforter is the One who is "with" us, offering to us the company that wins our radical solitude.
Its features are described through Its actions: It is "with" us forever,It is "the Spirit of truth," Who dwells near us in Jesus, It will be "in us" after his going away, It will teach to us and will they remember what He said.
The Holy Spirit will teach us and will impress on our heart the Son.
It's the inner Master, which makes us "all educated by God."
God That before was with us in the Law and then next to us in the flesh of the Son ,It will be in us with Its Spirit, the Love that makes everything know.
With the departure of Jesus the Revelation was accomplished : the Son expressed the Father's face.
But only those who love , they are able to know.
The Love, as it makes understand, so It makes re-member, to bring-in-the heart everything that Jesus said, we could live for this.
Jesus said and gave everything. Everything Jesus said when he was among us, will be made us understand and remember by the Spirit.
Jesus does not abandon us, but He makes the sense of his coming among us. He gives to us His peace and His joy, the fruits of the Spirit of Love.
The Holy Spirit will not add anything to that He has revealed and given: It will instead enter ever more deeply in us the mystery of the Son and of the Father, with a love that makes known to us and a knowledge that makes love.
Gospel of today Jn 21:15-19
RispondiEliminaFeed my lambs, feed my sheep.
After Jesus had revealed himself to his disciples and eaten breakfast with them,
he said to Simon Peter,
“Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”
Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
He then said to Simon Peter a second time,
“Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
He said to him the third time,
“Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was distressed that he had said to him a third time,
“Do you love me?” and he said to him,
“Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.”
Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
Amen, amen, I say to you, when you were younger,
you used to dress yourself and go where you wanted;
but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands,
and someone else will dress you
and lead you where you do not want to go.”
He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God.
And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”