I greet all of you with affection at the end of the The great Feast of Pentecost invites us to meditate upon the We can thus be certain that the most Sacred Heart of Jesus, In this way Mary’s faith sustains the faith of the disciples Dear friends, in Mary’s school we too learn to recognize the Holy Spirit’s presence in our life, to listen to his inspirations and<\/span><\/span> to follow them with docility<\/span>. He makes us grown in the fullness of Christ, in those good fruits that the apostle Paul lists in the Letter to the Galatians: “Love, joy, peace, magnanimity, benevolence, goodness, fidelity, meekness, self-control (5:22). I hope that you will be filled with these gifts and will always walk with Mary according to the Spirit and, as I express my praise for your participation in this evening celebration, I impart my Apostolic Benediction to all of you from my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you thought much about the terrific connection between the Blessed Mother and the Holy Spirit? There is an ever stronger interest in my heart that is building in me to experience more fully this intimacy, this desire of the Lord that is known in the heart of Mary. I mentioned it the other day … Continue reading Living in the Spirit with the Blessed Virgin Mary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[32088,1787],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ntraditional Marian vigil that concludes the month of May in the Vatican. This
\nyear it has acquired a very special value since it falls on the eve of
\nPentecost. Gathering together, spiritually recollected before the Virgin Mary,
\ncontemplating the mysteries of the Holy Rosary, you have relived the experience
\nof the first disciples<\/span>, gathered together in the room of the Last Supper with
\n“the Mother of Jesus,” “persevering and united in prayer”
\nawaiting the coming of the Holy Spirit (cf. Acts 1:14). We too, in this
\npenultimate evening of May, from the Vatican hill, ask for the pouring out of
\nthe Spirit Paraclete upon us, upon the Church that is in Rome and upon the
\nwhole Christian people.![\"Mary](\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Mary%20Spirit%20and%20OPs.jpg\")
\nrelationship between the Holy Spirit and Mary<\/span>, a very close, privileged,
\nindissoluble relationship<\/span>. The Virgin of Nazareth was chosen beforehand to
\nbecome the Mother of the Redeemer by the working of the Holy Spirit: in her
\nhumility, she found grace in God’s eyes<\/span> (cf. Luke 1:30). In effect, in the New
\nTestament we see that Mary’s faith “draws,” so to speak, the Holy
\nSpirit. First of all in the conception of the Son of God, which the archangel
\nGabriel explains in this way: “The Holy Spirit will descend upon you and
\nthe power of the Most High will overshadow you” (Luke 1:35). Immediately
\nafterward Mary went to help Elizabeth, and when her greeting reached
\nElizabeth’s ears, the Holy Spirit made the child jump in the womb of her
\nelderly cousin (cf. Luke 1:44); and the whole dialogue between the two mothers
\nis inspired by the Spirit of God, above all the “Magnificat,” the
\ncanticle of praise with which Mary expresses her sentiments. The whole event of
\nJesus’ birth and his early childhood is guided in an almost palpable manner by
\nthe Holy Spirit, even if he is not always mentioned<\/span>. Mary’s heart, in perfect
\nconsonance with the divine Son, is the temple of the Spirit of truth, where
\nevery word and every event are kept in faith, hope and charity (cf. Luke 2:19,
\n51).
\nin his whole hidden life in Nazareth, always found a “hearth” that
\nwas always burning with prayer and constant attention to the Holy Spirit in
\nMary’s Immaculate Heart. The wedding feast at Cana is a witness to this
\nsingular harmony between Mother and Son in seeking God’s will<\/span>. In a situation
\nlike the wedding feast, charged with symbols of the covenant, t<\/span>he Virgin Mary
\nintercedes and, in a certain sense, provokes, a sign of superabundant divine
\ngrace: the “good wine” that points to mystery of the Blood of Christ<\/span>.
\nThis leads us directly to Calvary, where Mary stands under the cross with the
\nother women and the Apostle John. Together the Mother and the disciple
\nspiritually taken in Jesus’ testament: his last words and his last breath, in
\nwhich he begins to send out the Spirit; and they take in the silent crying out
\nof his Blood, poured out completely for us (cf. John 19:25-34). Mary knew where
\nthe blood came from<\/span><\/span>: it was formed in her by the work of the Holy Spirit, and
\nshe knew that this same creative “power” would raise Jesus up, as he
\npromised.
\nuntil the meeting with the risen Lord, and will continue to accompany them even
\nafter his ascension into heaven, as they await the “baptism of the Holy
\nSpirit” (cf. Acts 1:5). At Pentecost, the Virgin Mary appears again as
\nBride of the Spirit, having a universal maternity with respect to those who are
\nborn from God through faith in Christ<\/span>. T<\/span>his is why Mary is for all generations
\nthe image and model of the Church, who together with the Holy Spirit journeys
\nthrough time invoking Christ’s glorious return: “Come, Lord Jesus”<\/span>
\n(cf. Revelation 22:17, 20).