June 8, 2025
Pentecost Sunday - Mass during the Day
Lectionary: 63
Reading 1
When the time for Pentecost was
fulfilled,
they were all in one place together.
And suddenly there came from the sky
a noise like a strong driving wind,
and it filled the entire house in which they were.
Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire,
which parted and came to rest on each one of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak in different tongues,
as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven
staying in Jerusalem.
At this sound, they gathered in a large crowd,
but they were confused
because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
They were astounded, and in amazement they asked,
"Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans?
Then how does each of us hear them in his native language?
We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites,
inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia,
Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia,
Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene,
as well as travelers from Rome,
both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs,
yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues
of the mighty acts of God."
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31,
34
R. (cf. 30) Lord, send
out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Bless the LORD, O my soul!
O LORD, my God, you are great indeed!
How manifold are your works, O LORD!
the earth is full of your creatures;
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
May the glory of the LORD endure forever;
may the LORD be glad in his works!
Pleasing to him be my theme;
I will be glad in the LORD.
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
If you take away their breath, they perish
and return to their dust.
When you send forth your spirit, they are created,
and you renew the face of the earth.
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Reading 2
Brothers and sisters:
No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.
There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit;
there are different forms of service but the same Lord;
there are different workings but the same God
who produces all of them in everyone.
To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit
is given for some benefit.
As a body is one though it has many parts,
and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body,
so also Christ.
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body,
whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons,
and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.
or:
Brothers and sisters:
Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
But you are not in the flesh;
on the contrary, you are in the spirit,
if only the Spirit of God dwells in you.
Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
But if Christ is in you,
although the body is dead because of sin,
the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
the one who raised Christ from the dead
will give life to your mortal bodies also,
through his Spirit that dwells in you.
Consequently, brothers and sisters,
we are not debtors to the flesh,
to live according to the flesh.
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die,
but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body,
you will live.
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear,
but you received a Spirit of adoption,
through whom we cry, "Abba, Father!"
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit
that we are children of God,
and if children, then heirs,
heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,
if only we suffer with him
so that we may also be glorified with him.
Sequence Veni, Sancte Spiritus
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
And from your celestial home
Shed a ray of light divine!
Come, Father of the poor!
Come, source of all our store!
Come, within our bosoms shine.
You, of comforters the best;
You, the soul's most welcome guest;
Sweet refreshment here below;
In our labor, rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness in the heat;
Solace in the midst of woe.
O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of yours,
And our inmost being fill!
Where you are not, we have naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
Nothing free from taint of ill.
Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;
Wash the stains of guilt away:
Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
Guide the steps that go astray.
On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore
In your sevenfold gift descend;
Give them virtue's sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
Give them joys that never end. Amen.
Alleluia.
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful
and kindle in them the fire of your love.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
On the evening of that first day
of the week,
when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,
for fear of the Jews,
Jesus came and stood in their midst
and said to them, "Peace be with you."
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
"Receive the Holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,
and whose sins you retain are retained."
or:
Jesus said to his disciples:
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
And I will ask the Father,
and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always.
"Whoever loves me will keep my word,
and my Father will love him,
and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.
Those who do not love me do not keep my words;
yet the word you hear is not mine
but that of the Father who sent me.
"I have told you this while I am with you.
The Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name,
will teach you everything
and remind you of all that I told you."
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Commentary on Acts
2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7,12-13 or Romans 8:8-17; John 20:19-23
Today’s great and joyful feast of Pentecost rounds off the
tremendous mysteries that we have been commemorating since Holy Week—the
Passion, the Death, the Resurrection, and the Ascension of Jesus culminates in
the sending of the Spirit of the Father and the Son on his disciples. As has
been said previously, we are not dealing here merely with separate historical
incidents, but with one reality—the extraordinary intervention of God into our
lives by what we can only call the ‘mystery’ of Christ. And today’s feast
indicates that it is an ongoing reality, which still touches our lives every
single day.
Two models, one reality
What we said, too, of the Ascension last week applies with equal force to the
meaning of Pentecost. In other words, we would be making a mistake to read the
Scripture texts too literally; otherwise we will run into unnecessary
conflicts. As with the Ascension, our traditional catechisms tends to identify Pentecost
only with the version in the Acts (the First Reading of today’s Mass). But in
today’s Gospel, which takes place on Easter Sunday, Jesus, before his
Ascension, gives his Spirit to his disciples and the mission which follows from
that. The two accounts are two different ways of describing the same reality.
Actual time and place are not important.
A new creation
Let us go to the Gospel first. It is “the first day of the week”—that is, the
Sunday after Good Friday, the day of the Resurrection—or Easter Sunday. Jesus’
disciples are cowering in fear behind locked doors. As colleagues of Jesus they
are afraid they may have to face arrest or even worse. Suddenly, there is Jesus
among them. He gives them the usual Jewish greeting ‘Shalom’, but here it is filled
with meaning. “Peace with you” can be taken as a wish (‘Peace be with you’) or
more truly (‘Peace is with you’). In the presence of Jesus we experience a kind
of peace which only he can give.
It is no wonder that the disciples, who just now were terrified,
are filled with joy. There are two qualities that always accompany the presence
of Jesus in our lives—peace and joy.
Passing the baton
Now comes the mission:
As the Father has sent me, so I send you.
The baton is being passed. They have a job to do and it is
exactly what Jesus himself came to do—to establish the Kingdom on earth.
Jesus now breathes on them. In Greek the word (pneuma)
for ‘breath’ and ‘spirit’ are the same. The breathing recalls God breathing
life into the dust and bringing the first human being into existence. Here too
there is a kind of creation, as the disciples are re-created into the ‘new
person’ that Paul will speak about in his letters, a person filled with the
Spirit of Jesus and mandated to continue his work.
Agents of unity and peace
And how is that work expressed?
If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them;
if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.
This is their job—to be agents of
reconciliation—reconciliation of people everywhere with their God, and reconciliation
with each other as brothers and sisters, children of one common Father.
Reconciliation means the healing of wounds, of all forms of division. This is
the work of the Kingdom. It is what we are called to do. We use this text for
the institution of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, but while the meaning of
the words includes this, it goes much further than just referring to a
Sacrament.
A mind-blowing experience
Let us now turn to the second Spirit-experience as it is described in
Luke’s account in Acts (today’s First Reading). This is sometimes called the
Exodus account, for it reminds us of the great event commemorating the
liberation of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. Here, too, there are
significant elements:
- There
is the powerful wind, which, of course, is the Spirit and which, in John’s
Gospel, is translated as ‘breath’.
- There
is the fire—the “tongues as of fire” that came to rest over each one in
the place. This, as in the Exodus narrative, indicates God’s power and
presence. We think of the burning bush from which God spoke to Moses and
gave him his mission to his people. It reminds us of the pillar of fire,
which, by night, accompanied and guided the Jews on their wanderings
through the desert. They knew they were not alone.
Extraordinary change
And what an extraordinary result this experience had on the disciples!
These men, huddled fearfully behind locked doors are almost blown from the
room. No longer afraid, they have an almost uncontrollable urge to share what
they have experienced, to share their knowledge, but even more, their
experience of Jesus. Threats of prison or torture in no way intimidate them.
A message for all
Together with this, they are given a power to communicate. Their message
is heard and understood by all—the linguistic barriers of Babel have collapsed.
This is less a miracle of instantaneous language-learning than a way of saying
that the message of Jesus is for all and can be understood by all. And this is
so because, deep down, the message of God through Jesus speaks to the deepest
desires of each one’s heart. As St Augustine phrased so beautifully:
Our hearts can find no rest until they rest in you.
There is no longer a Chosen People. Or to put it another
way, now all are God’s people and all are called. The responses, of course,
will be uneven because we are invited, not conscripted, into the Kingdom.
Effects of the Spirit
What are the effects of the Spirit in our lives? That is expressed very
well in one of the Second Reading choices from the First Letter of Paul to the
Corinthians.
First, Paul says we cannot even call Jesus “Lord” unless we
have his Spirit.
…no one speaking by the Spirit of God…can say “Jesus is
Lord” except by the Holy Spirit.
To call Jesus “Lord” is not just uttering a pious phrase; it
implies a real faith in who Jesus is and the proof of that will be in the way
we live our lives.
Special gifts for each one
Second, the Spirit is the source of the special gifts (or ‘charisms’)
which each member of the community receives. The Source of the gifts is one—the
Spirit of God—and that is what unites together all those who receive them into
one community. But there is a huge variety of gifts. It is important to note
that the gifts are not given as a personal grace for oneself. They are rather
special abilities by which each one serves the needs of the community. We have
all to work together—using our gifts—to build up the community to which we
belong.
We are many in number, but through the working of the
Spirit, we become like one body, in fact, we are the Body of Christ. Just as
one body has many limbs and organs working together as a harmonious unit, so we
as the Body of Christ each make our distinct contribution to the life and work
of the community:
For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one
body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one
Spirit.
The way to freedom
The Spirit is a way of true freedom and liberation; his is not a way of
slavery, compulsion, addiction, greed or fear. Through the Spirit there is a
close, warm, confident relationship with God. In the alternate First Reading
from the Letter to the Romans, Saint Paul says:
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back
into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba![Papa] Father!”
it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of
God, and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ…
We are in the fullest sense children of God—living images of
our Father. The Spirit makes us co-heirs with Christ to:
…suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with
him.
The suffering does not arise from restrictions on our
freedom, but because, in our total commitment to truth, love, genuine freedom
and human dignity, we are prepared to pay any price, even, if necessary, the
surrender of life itself. We could not be truly happy otherwise.
Gifts to be shared
We radiate that Spirit and by our word and example invite others to share it.
The gifts of the Spirit are not for ourselves, they are to be shared. After the
coming of the Holy Spirit, as we have seen, the disciples did not stay in that
room luxuriating in what they had been given. They burst out to tell the world
how much God loves everyone and how he wants everyone to experience that love.
How he wants people liberated from the destructive constraints of the flesh to
an unlimited blossoming in the Spirit.
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Sunday,
June 8, 2025
Pentecost
Sunday
Opening Prayer
Most merciful Father, on this
most holy day I cry to You from my room behind closed doors. I raise my prayer
to You in fear and immobility in the face of death. Grant that Jesus may come
to me and dwell at the center of my heart that He may drive away all fear and
all darkness. Grant me Your peace, which is true peace, peace of heart. Grant
that the Holy Spirit may come to me, the Spirit who is the fire of love, that
warms and enlightens, that melts and purifies; who is living water, flowing
even to eternal life, that quenches and cleans, that baptizes and renews; who
is the strong and at the same time soft wind, the breath of Your voice and
breath; who is a dove announcing pardon, a new and lasting beginning for the
whole world.
Send Your Spirit upon me when I read and listen to
Your Word so that I may penetrate the mysteries it holds; grant that I may be
overwhelmed and submerged, baptized and made into a new person, so that I may
give my life to You and to my brothers and sisters. Amen. Alleluia
Gospel Reading - John 14: 15-16, 23-26
Placing the Passage in Its Context:
These few verses, which are not even well
connected, are a few drops of water taken from an ocean. In fact, they are part
of that long and grandiose discourse in John’s Gospel, which begins with
chapter 13: 31 and goes up to and including the whole of chapter 17. The whole
of this very deep discourse deals with only one theme, that is, the “going of
Jesus”, which we find in 13: 33: “Yet a little while I am with you… Where I go you cannot come” and in 16: 28: “I
came from the Father and have come into the world. Again I leave the world and go to the Father” and again in 17: 13:
“Now I am coming to you, [Father].”
Jesus’ going to the Father signifies also our going, our faith journey in this
world; it is here that we learn to follow Jesus, to listen to Him, to live like
Him. It is here that we receive the complete revelation of Jesus in the mystery
of the Trinity as well as the revelation concerning a Christian life, its
power, its tasks, its joys and sorrows, its hopes, and struggles. In reflecting
on these words, we find the truth of the Lord Jesus and of ourselves before Him
and in Him.
These verses speak especially of three
very strong consolations for us: the promise of the coming of the Consoler; the
coming of the Father and the Son within those who believe; the presence of a
master, the Holy Spirit, through whom the teachings of Jesus will never cease. To Help Us with the Reading of the Passage:
vv. 15-16: Jesus reveals that the
observance of the commandments is not a matter of obligation, but a sweet fruit
that is born of the love of the disciple for Him. This loving obedience is due
to the all-powerful prayer of Jesus for us. The Lord promises another Consoler,
sent by the Father, who will always remain with us in order to drive away our
solitude once and for all.
vv. 23-24: Jesus repeats that
love and observance of the commandments are two vital truths essentially
related to each other, that have the power to introduce the disciple into the
mystical life, that is, into the experience of immediate and personal communion
with Jesus and with the Father.
v. 25: Jesus says something very
important: there is a substantial difference between what He said while He was with the disciples and what He will say
later, when, thanks to the Spirit, He will be in them, within them. At
first, understanding is limited because the relationship with Him is an
external one: the Word comes from outside and reaches ears, but not pronounced
within.
Later, understanding will be full.
v. 26: Jesus announces the Holy Spirit as master who
will teach no longer from outside but from within us. He will give new life to
the words of Jesus, those forgotten will be remembered and will be understood
by the disciples within their capabilities. The Text:
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you
always." Jesus answered and said to him, "Whoever loves me will keep
my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our
dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the
word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me. I have told you
this while I am with you. The Advocate, the holy Spirit that the Father will
send in my name - he will teach you everything and remind you of all that (I)
told you."
A Time of Prayerful Silence
I go to the Master’s school, the Holy Spirit. I sit at His
feet and I abandon myself in His presence. I open my heart, without any fear,
so that He may instruct, console, reprove and make me grow.
A Few Questions
•
“If you
love Me.” Is my relationship with Jesus a relationship of love? Do I make
room for Him in my heart? Do I look within myself honestly and ask, “Where is
love in my life? Is there any?” If I realize that there is no love within me,
or just a little, do I try to ask myself, “What is preventing me, what is it
that keeps me closed, imprisoned, rendering me sad and lonely?”
•
“You will
observe My commandments.” I notice the verb “to observe” with the many
meanings it implies: to look after well, to protect, to pay attention, to keep
alive, to reserve and preserve, not to throw away, to keep carefully, with
love. Am I aware and enlightened by these attitudes, by my relationship as
disciple, as Christian, with the Word and the commandments that Jesus gave us
for our happiness?
•
“He will
give you another Consoler.” How often have I searched for someone to
console me, to look after me, to show me affection and care for me! Am I truly
convinced that true consolation comes from the Lord? Or do I still trust much
more in the consolations I find, the ones that I beg for here and there, that I
gather like crumbs without ever being able to be satisfied?
•
“Make our
home with Him.” The Lord stands at the door and knocks and waits. He does
not force or oblige. He says, “If you wish…” He suggests that I might become
His home, the place of His repose, of His intimacy. Jesus is ready and happy to
come to me, to unite Himself to me in a very special kind of friendship. But,
am I ready? Am I expecting His visit, His coming, His entering into my most
intimate, most personal self? Is there room for Him in the inn?
•
“He
will…bring to your remembrance all that I have said.” The word
“remembrance” recalls another very important, even essential matter. Am I
challenged and scrutinized by scripture? What is it that I recall? What do I
try to remember, to bring to life in my interior world? The Word of the Lord is
a most precious treasure; it is the seed of life that is sown in my heart; but
do I look after this seed? Do I defend it from a thousand enemies and dangers
that assail it: the birds, the rocks, the thorns, the evil one? Do I, every
morning, carry with me a Word of the Lord to remember during the day and to
make my inner light, my strength, my food?
A Key to the Reading
I now
approach each one of the characters in the reading and I listen prayerfully,
meditatively, reflectively, in contemplation… • The Face of the Father:
Jesus says, “I will
ask the Father” (v. 26) and thus draws aside a little the mysterious veil
surrounding prayer: prayer is the life that leads to the Father. To go to the
Father, we are given the way of prayer. As Jesus lives His relationship with
the Father by means of prayer, so also must we. I need to read the Gospels and
become a careful searcher of signs concerning this secret of the love of Jesus
and His Father, so that, by entering into that relationship, I too may grow in
the knowledge of God, my Father.
“He will give you
another Consoler.” The Father is the one who gives us the Consoler. This
gift is preceded by the Father’s act of love, who knows that we need
consolation: He saw my misery in Egypt and heard my cry. He indeed knows my
sufferings and sees the oppressions that torment me (cf. Ex 3: 7-9); nothing
goes unnoticed by His infinite love for me. That is why He gives us the
Consoler. The Father is the Giver. Everything comes to us from Him and no one
else.
“My Father will love
him” (v. 24). The Father is the lover who loves with an eternal love,
absolute, and inviolable . Thus do Isaiah, Jeremiah and all the Prophets say
(cf. Jer 31: 3; Isa 43: 4, 54: 8; Hos 2: 21, 11: 1).
“We will come to
him.” The Father is united with the Son, Jesus, and is one with Him, and
with Him, comes to each one of us. He moves, goes out, bends and walks towards
us. Urged by a mad and inexplicable love, He comes to us.
“And we will make our
home with him.” The Father builds His house within us; He makes of us, of
me, of my existence, of my whole being, His home. He comes and will not leave
but faithfully stays.
• The Face of the Son:
“If you love Me…” (v.
15); “If anyone loves Me…” (v. 23).
Jesus enters into a unique and personal relationship with me, face to face,
heart to heart, soul to soul; He wants to have an intense relationship, unique,
unrepeatable, and He unites me to Him by love if I so wish. He always puts an
“if” and says when He asks me by name: “If you wish…” The only way He
constantly seeks to come to me is through love. In fact, it is noticeable that
the use of the pronouns “you” and “anyone” are connected to “me” by the verb
“to love” and no other verb.
“I will ask the
Father” (v. 16). Jesus is the one who prays, who lives by prayer and for
prayer. The whole of His life is summed up by prayer and in prayer. He is the
supreme and eternal priest who intercedes for us and offers prayers and
supplications together with tears (cf. Heb 5: 7), for our salvation; “He is able
at all times to save those who come to God through Him, since He lives always
to make intercession for them” (Heb 7: 25).
“If
anyone loves Me, he will keep My word” (v. 23); “He who does not love Me, does not keep y words” (v. 24). Jesus
offers me His Word, He gives it to me in trust that I may look after it and
guard it, that I may place it in my heart and there keep it warm, watch over
it, contemplate it, listen to it and thus make it bear fruit. His word is a
seed; it is the most precious pearl of all, for which it is worthwhile selling
every other wealth; it is the treasure hidden in the field worth digging for
without counting the cost; it is the fire that makes the heart burn within my
breast; it is the lamp that illumines our steps even in the darkest night. Love
for the Word of Jesus can be identified by my love for
Jesus Himself, for His whole being,
because, after all, He is the Word. That is why, in this passage, Jesus is
crying out to my heart that He is the one I must keep.
• The Face of the Holy Spirit:
“The Father will give
you another Consoler” (v. 16). The Father gives us the Holy Spirit; this is
“the good gift and every perfect gift from above” (Jas 1: 17). He is “the other
Consoler” other than Jesus, who goes and comes back so as not to leave us
alone, abandoned. While I am in this world, I do not lack consolation, but am
comforted by the presence of the Holy Spirit, who is not just consolation, but
is much more: He is a living person and living with me always. This presence,
this company is capable of giving me joy, true joy. In fact Paul says, “The
fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace…” (Gal 5: 22; cf. Rom 14: 17).
“to be with you
forever.” The Spirit is in our midst, He is with me, just as Jesus was with
His disciples. His coming is a physical, personal presence; I do not see Him,
but I know that He is there and that He will never leave me. The spirit is
always here and lives with me and in me, with no limitations of time or space;
thus He is the Consoler.
“He will teach you all
things” (v. 26). The Holy Spirit is the teacher, He who opens the way for
conscience, experience; no one except Him can lead me, inform me, give me new
form. His is not a school where one acquires human knowledge that creates pride
and does not liberate; His teachings, His whisperings, His precise directions
come from God and lead back to God. The Spirit teaches true wisdom and true
knowledge (Ps 118: 66), He teaches the Father’s will (Ps 118: 26, 64), His ways
(Ps 24: 4), His commandments (Ps 118,124, 135), which are life. He is a teacher
capable of leading me to the whole truth (Jn 16: 13), who gives me deep
freedom, even to the time of the separation of the soul and the spirit, for He
alone, who is God, can bring me to life and resurrection. As God, He is humble;
He lowers Himself, descends from His throne and enters into me (cf. Acts 1: 8;
10: 44), He gives Himself to me entirely and absolutely; He is not jealous of
His gift, of His light, but gives without limits.
A Moment of Prayer: Psalm 30
A Hymn of Praise to God, Who Has Sent Us
the New Life of the Spirit From On High
Ref. You
have given me the fullness of life, Lord, alleluia!
I will extol Thee, O Lord, for Thou hast drawn me up,
and hast not let my foes rejoice
over me. O Lord my God, I cried to Thee for help, and Thou hast healed me.
O Lord, Thou hast brought up my
soul from Sheol, restored me to life from among those gone down to the Pit.
Sing praises to the Lord, O you His saints, and give thanks to
His holy name.
For His anger is but for a moment, and His favor is for a
lifetime.
Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the
morning.
As for me, I said in my
prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
By thy favor, O Lord,
Thou hast established me as a
strong mountain; Thou didst hide Thy face, I was dismayed.
To Thee, O Lord,
I cried; and to the Lord I made supplication.
Hear, O Lord, and be gracious to me! O Lord, be Thou my
helper!"
Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing;
Thou hast loosed my sackcloth and
girded me with gladness, that my soul may praise Thee and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to Thee for ever.
Closing Prayer
Holy Spirit, allow me to speak to You again. It is
difficult for me to go away from my meeting with the Word because You are
present there. Therefore, live and act in me. I present to You, to Your
intimacy, Your Love, my face of disciple; I mirror myself in You, O Holy
Spirit. I offer You, finger of God’s right hand, my features, my eyes, my lips,
my ears… work in me Your healing, Your liberation and salvation that I may be
reborn, today, a new person from the womb of Your fire, the breath of Your
wind. Holy Spirit, I was not born to be alone. I beg You, therefore, send me
brothers and sisters that I may proclaim to them the life that comes from You.
Amen. Alleluia!
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