MARY AND THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
4. The Holy Spirit Within Us.
Do not forget that at Baptism you also received the Holy Spirit. It was He who made you a child of God. You received Him in Confirmation where He strengthened you in your faith and took you under His protection. By means of sanctifying grace you constantly receive Him in all the Sacraments through the effusion of the divine life. Do not forget that the Holy Spirit dwells in souls as in His living temple and therefore you have Him close in your very heart. It is He who sustains, helps enlightens and leads you along the way of sanctity. Thank Him for His inexhaustible love which never tires of you or of your ingratitude. Promise that you will correspond better to His divine gifts. That you will labor with more effort and will cooperate with more interest with the work of grace.
Entrust this task to Our Heavenly Mother that She may prepare your heart as She did with the hearts of the Apostles. She will render fruitful and abiding the coming of the Holy Spirit into your soul.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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