"THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL GLORIFY ME"

  25^th May, 2022:

WEDNESDAY,  SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER (C)

(Acts 17: 15, 22-18:1); 

 (Jn 16: 12-15)

"THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL GLORIFY ME"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today as we paid attention to the expressions of God in the Scriptures, we are given the account of how St. Paul proselytize the agnostic people of Athens, broadcasting the reality of the One and just True God to every one of them, perceiving how the Athenians were all revering the agnostic divine forces of the Olympian pantheon, and was in any event, venerating an obscure God. St. Paul uncovered to every one of them that what they served and adored were just manifestations of human hands and brains, and were not the genuine godlikeness, which is as a matter of fact, the Lord and Creator, Whom St. Paul acquainted with them.

St. Paul talked politely about the Lord in the midst of people of Athens who were prestigious for their philosophical considerations and thoughts, and large numbers of whom likewise held solid commitment to the agnostic divine beings and symbols. Thus, his presentation of the absolutely unfamiliar idea of the unrivaled God Who made the entire world and the universe, which was drastically not the same as what the Athenians were utilized to, is something absolutely valiant and critical for St. Paul to do, and keeping in mind that he wound up having large numbers of the Athenians disparaging him and dismissing his convictions and words, there were some among the Athenians who were captivated by the Christian confidence that St. Paul brought unto them.

That was the way the seeds of the confidence and the groundwork of the Church was implicit Athens, even in the core of the Greek agnosticism and philosophical standards, which later on would be rivals against the impacts of the Christian confidence and Church in the later hundreds of years. St. Paul and his hard works and endeavors assisted with spreading the word about the Lord for that multitude of people , and that was thanks to the direction and strength that God had given to them which permitted them to continue enduring for the Lord and His kin, for their kindred brethren. Through them, the Church would very before long develop into a huge association with solid ground works and numerous devotees.

In our Gospel section today, as we are currently drawing nearer to the festival of the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord and the Solemnity of the Pentecost Sunday, we are given the Lord's guarantee for His disciples and supporters, that while He wouldn't accompany them actually significantly longer, yet He would continuously be close by, really focusing on them and being with them. He would send them the Helper, the Advocate that is the Holy Spirit, descending from God the Father Himself, to accompany us, to reinforce and empower us, and excite every one of us with trust and power. The Holy Spirit helped and energized St. Paul and different Apostles and followers to go forward bravely and announce the reality of God to the many people  of the numerous countries they had served.

Today, we praise the banquet of a couple of holy people whose life, calling and services can likewise be wellsprings of motivation for every last one of us, to perceive how they had been reinforced and enlivened by the Holy Spirit, in doing the desire of God. St. Bede the Venerable, Pope St. Gregory VII and St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi all had committed their lives in their own particular manners to serve the Lord and to commend Him, and every last one of us can observe what they had done with the goal that we might know how we can likewise act in our lives to praise the Lord and to announce Him to that multitude of whom we experience throughout everyday life, in every single snapshots of our lives.

St. Bede the Venerable is a famous priest and productive essayist from the Dark Age England, where he tended to people  of God and roused numerous through his compositions and compositions, as he composed broadly on many issues. St. Bede the Venerable assisted with driving the underpinning of Christian training in England and then some, moving others to dig further into the insight of Christian lessons and insights. The Holy Spirit plainly motivated St. Bede the Venerable in his compositions and works, through which he personally motivated and fortified the confidence in a large number of those whose lives he had contacted, and every one of the people who have perused his works, the entire way to our current day and time.

In the mean time, Pope St. Gregory VII is an extraordinary reformer Pope and head of the Church, who was associated with his commitment and commitments in improving the Church vivaciously, carrying out numerous significant changes that uncovered debasements and mischievousness in the Church, driving out common matters and defilements from the Church, from the religious communities and from among the pastorate, large numbers of whom had been steadily impacted by common practices and concerns, which gradually made the Church lose its concentration and course. Pope St. Gregory VII kept on striving to support those significant changes, even against strong mainstream rulers who looked to utilize the Church and its organizations for their own advantages.

Consequently, Pope St. Gregory VII was additionally notable for his job in the purported 'Induction Controversy', as the mainstream chiefs especially that of the strong Holy Roman Emperor shielded and advocated their privileges to choose and put the clerics in their own property, and the Holy Roman Emperor being the preeminent common head of Christendom, crashed into the Pope, who battled that every otherworldly matter, the arrangement and eventually the loyalty of priests went under the full power of the Church and the authority of the Pope alone, and the Emperor reserved no option to mediate in it. The Holy Spirit reinforced and directed Pope St. Gregory VII in his energy and devotion to change the Church and go against the people who tried to ruin it.

 

Ultimately, St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi was a Carmelite sister and an eminent Church spiritualist who came from one of the richest respectable Italian families during the late Renaissance, who from right off the bat in her life had figured out how to commit herself to the Lord, rehearsing self-embarrassment and reflection which later on would move her to join the strict life, at first against the desires of his dad, who in the long run yielded and permitted her to be essential for the Carmelite strict request. St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi turned into a sister and got a progression of dreams and disclosures through which others came to find out about Christ, an encounter that should have for sure be enlivened by the Lord and His insight, went on through the Holy Spirit.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, having heard this large number of extraordinary instances of the three holy people, St. Paul and numerous others whose lives we know and know about, we can perceive how the Holy Spirit has propelled numerous to do the will and work of God in our reality. Might we at any point do likewise too with our lives? Could we at any point permit the Lord to direct us through His Holy Spirit, that His insight and strength might lead us to stroll in this way of confidence, and rouse others to come to the Lord also. May the Lord accompany all of us and may His Holy Spirit excite us with His Passion and love, consistently, that we may continuously laud Him by our lives. Amen.