{"id":33393,"date":"2016-05-15T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33393"},"modified":"2016-05-15T07:56:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T11:56:59","slug":"pentecost-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/05\/pentecost-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pentecost-Greco.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33431\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33431 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pentecost-Greco-141x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pentecost Greco\" width=\"183\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pentecost-Greco-141x300.jpg 141w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pentecost-Greco-480x1024.jpg 480w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pentecost-Greco.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a>In fact, the paschal mystery \u2014 the passion, death and resurrection of Christ and his ascension into Heaven \u2014 finds its fulfillment in the powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles gathered together with Mary, Mother of the Lord, and the other disciples. It was the \u201cbaptism\u201d of the Church, baptism in the Holy Spirit (cf. Acts 1:5)&#8230; God\u2019s voice divinized the human language of the Apostles who were enabled to proclaim the one divine Word in a \u201cpolyphonic\u201d manner. The breath of the Holy Spirit fills the universe, generates faith, leads to truth, and predisposes people to unity&#8230;The Holy Spirit, \u201cwho is the Lord and Giver of life\u201d \u2014 as we say in the Creed \u2014 is joined to the Father through the Son and completes the revelation of the Blessed Trinity. He comes from God like a breath from his mouth and has the power of sanctifying, abolishing divisions, dispelling the confusion due to sin. Incorporeal and immaterial, he lavishes divine goods upon living beings and sustains them so that they may act in conformity with the good. As an intelligible Light he gives meaning to prayer, vigor to the evangelizing mission, he makes the hearts of those who listen to the happy message burn and inspires Christian art and liturgical music.<\/p>\n<p>Pentecost<br \/>\nBenedict XVI<br \/>\nRegina Caeli Address, June 12, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, the paschal mystery \u2014 the passion, death and resurrection of Christ and his ascension into Heaven \u2014 finds its fulfillment in the powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles gathered together with Mary, Mother of the Lord, and the other disciples. It was the \u201cbaptism\u201d of the Church, baptism in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/05\/pentecost-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentecost<\/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":[69],"tags":[2107,32081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33393"}],"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=33393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33433,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33393\/revisions\/33433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}