When we go into a pick-and-mix store we can often be presented with many attractive lollies. The desire is to fill our bags with goodies and then return home to consume them in our own time. Yet Pentecost is more than just seeking out the gifts that are attractive to us but rather seeing how the Spirit guides us to proclaim the Good News in our own time. It allows us to discover that the Spirit advocates for us to become witnesses.
This enables us to discover the charisms that draw us closer to God and closer to each other. They help us to acknowledge that God does not abandon us or leave us as orphans. God adopts us as children who are formed in God's image and likeness. We become stewards of the graces entrusted to us for the good of all.
Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in us the fire of your love. Send forth your spirit and they shall be created and you shall renew the face of the earth. O God who by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by that same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever rejoice in his consolations, through Christ our Lord.
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