Pope: Gift of the Spirit renews our relationship with
God
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis
preached on the passage “I will not leave you orphans” (Jn 14:18) during his
homily at the Mass for Pentecost Sunday in St Peter’s.
Beginning with the first
reading from St Paul’s Letter to the Romans, the Pope said, “Here we see our
relationship renewed: the paternity of God is re-established in us thanks to
the redemptive work of Christ and the gift of the Holy Spirit.” He continued,
“The Spirit is given to us by the Father and leads us back to the Father. The
entire work of salvation is one of “re-generation”, in which the fatherhood of
God, through the gift of the Son and the Holy Spirit, frees us from the condition
of being orphans into which we had fallen.”
Too often in this world we
see “the signs of being orphans,” such as loneliness, the desire to be “free of
God,” or the difficulty in seeing others as brothers and sisters.
But, the Pope said, “being children
of God runs contrary to this, and is our primordial vocation – we were made to
be God’s children, it is in our DNA.” This relationship, though, was ruined by
sin, and it is only through death and resurrection of Jesus, God’s
only-begotten Son, that that relationship can be reborn. It is precisely on
account of Jesus’ death on the Cross that the Holy Spirit “has been poured out
upon humanity like a vast torrent of grace.”
Jesus’ promise that He will
not leave us orphans also reminds us of “the maternal presence of Mary at
Pentecost, the Pope said. “The Mother of Jesus is with the community of
disciples gathered in prayer: she is the living remembrance of the Son and the
living invocation of the Holy Spirit. She is the Mother of the Church.”
The Pope concluded his homily
by saying that the gift of the Spirit allows us “to enter into a new experience
of fraternity, allowing us to see one another “as brothers ansd sisters whose
differences can only increase our joy and wonder at sharing in this unique fatherhood
and brotherhood.”
You can find the full text
of Pope Francis' homily for Mass on Pentecost here.
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