MARY AND THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
2. The Coming.
Once they were thus prepared, the Holy Ghost on Pentecost Day came in the shape of tongues of fire. Go into the Supper Room and there witness the astonishment and fear of the Apostles on hearing the violent hurricane, feeling that the whole house was shaking as though it was falling to pieces, as they received the mysterious tongues of fire which alighted on every one of them. Try to understand their great joy on feeling themselves filled with the Holy Spirit, with His gifts and graces, and especially with the burning love which is the Holy Spirit.
What would Our Lady feel? She was the first to understand the arrival of the Holy Spirit. Far from being frightened by those violent signs which accompanied His coming, She retired into the innermost recesses of Her soul in order to receive Him the better. How pleased would the Holy Ghost be on finding a soul so well prepared as that of Mary. The Holy Ghost had previously granted Her the fullness of His grace. What else could he do in Her on that day? He would miraculously increase Her capacity. He would dilate the expanse of Her soul. He would still more enlarge Her heart in order to have the satisfaction of filling it yet more with new graces, new privileges, with new and more fervent love.
Kneel before our dear Mother and admire the immense greatness bordering on the infinity of God with which you see Her clad on receiving the Holy Spirit. See Her again today more resplendent, pure and holy, and, if we can say so, more full of the love of God and of men. Were the Archangel to appear to Her again He would be dumbfounded. He would not be able to find in his angelic language suitable expressions to greet Her.
Let your heart exalt with joy. Ask Our Blessed Lady a small share of all that She is, all that She possesses.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
2. The Coming.
Once they were thus prepared, the Holy Ghost on Pentecost Day came in the shape of tongues of fire. Go into the Supper Room and there witness the astonishment and fear of the Apostles on hearing the violent hurricane, feeling that the whole house was shaking as though it was falling to pieces, as they received the mysterious tongues of fire which alighted on every one of them. Try to understand their great joy on feeling themselves filled with the Holy Spirit, with His gifts and graces, and especially with the burning love which is the Holy Spirit.
What would Our Lady feel? She was the first to understand the arrival of the Holy Spirit. Far from being frightened by those violent signs which accompanied His coming, She retired into the innermost recesses of Her soul in order to receive Him the better. How pleased would the Holy Ghost be on finding a soul so well prepared as that of Mary. The Holy Ghost had previously granted Her the fullness of His grace. What else could he do in Her on that day? He would miraculously increase Her capacity. He would dilate the expanse of Her soul. He would still more enlarge Her heart in order to have the satisfaction of filling it yet more with new graces, new privileges, with new and more fervent love.
Kneel before our dear Mother and admire the immense greatness bordering on the infinity of God with which you see Her clad on receiving the Holy Spirit. See Her again today more resplendent, pure and holy, and, if we can say so, more full of the love of God and of men. Were the Archangel to appear to Her again He would be dumbfounded. He would not be able to find in his angelic language suitable expressions to greet Her.
Let your heart exalt with joy. Ask Our Blessed Lady a small share of all that She is, all that She possesses.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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