Solemnity of Pentecost

The Solemnity of Pentecost

The Solemnity of Pentecost is the feast of the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit mystery of divine life. It is the feast of the Spirit because the Holy Spirit has been given to us and has spread over the earth, and because the Spirit is the gift of God, the gift of Himself that God has given us to live in our hearts.

In the gift of the Spirit, we have been drawn into the divine Trinity, and we have become part of the very family of God. We are no longer only remotely called to this divine life, but we are made participants of it in the deepest secret of our nature.

In the gift of the Spirit a new, truly wonderful and great creation is fulfilled.

The nature, the existence that we received as creatures, especially us human that God wanted to endow with a spirit, would have been nothing but the consciousness and experience of misery and death.

We celebrate Pentecost to feel God at work in every human heart, and we give ourselves to Him every day more, to use us as his collaborators in this immense work of transfiguration of the universe.

The presence of Mary, full of Grace, is at the beginning, in the Cenacle where the Apostles were persevering and united in prayer, together with some women and Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and his brothers (Acts 1, 14) it is always, today as then, in Jerusalem and in all parts of the world, Mary finds herself in the community of the disciples to prepare a new coming of the Holy Spirit - and a new birth: the birth of the Church.