{"id":167719,"date":"2024-05-29T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carfundacion.roymo.info\/blog\/quien-es-el-espiritu-santo-y-cuales-son-sus-dones-invocacion-al-espiritu-santo\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T16:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:21:59","slug":"espiritu-santo-cuales-son-sus-dones-e-invocacion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fundacioncarf.org\/en\/espiritu-santo-cuales-son-sus-dones-e-invocacion\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the Holy Spirit and what are His gifts? Invocation to the Holy Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christians in the Creed profess faith in the Holy Spirit, who is God, \"Lord and giver of life\". He is the inexhaustible source of divine life in us. He is \"the living water\" that Jesus promised to the Samaritan woman to quench thirst forever, to satisfy the deepest and highest longings of the human heart. For Jesus has \"come that they may have life and have it abundantly.\" <\/span>(Jn 10,10)<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Who is the Holy Spirit?<\/h2>\n

The Holy Spirit who is one of the three persons of the Holy Trinity.<\/strong>. It comes from the Father and the Son. Christ has poured it into our hearts, to make us children of God and so that our lives may be guided, animated and nourished by him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is precisely what we mean when we say that the Christian is a spiritual man: a person who thinks and acts following the Holy Spirit who is his inspiration.<\/p>\n

But in adoring the life-giving, consubstantial and indivisible Holy Trinity, the faith of the Church also professes the distinction of the Persons. When the Father sends his Word, he also sends his Breath: a joint mission in which the Persons of the Holy Trinity are distinct but inseparable. Without any doubt, Christ is the one who manifests himself, the visible image of the invisible God, but it is the Holy Spirit who reveals him.<\/strong>. Catechism of the Catholic Church 687-689<\/em><\/p>\n

The coming of the Holy Spirit<\/h3>\n

Before the Ascension, Jesus had commanded the disciples \"not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father. For John indeed baptized with water,\" he told them, \"but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. When he has come upon you, you will be witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.\"<\/p>\n

A few days later, continues St. Luke, \"when they were all together, suddenly there came suddenly from heaven a sound as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. Y were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues<\/strong>\".<\/p>\n

On this day, the Holy Trinity is fully revealed.<\/strong> and from that moment the Kingdom announced by Christ is open to all who believe in Him.<\/p>\n

The mission of the Holy Spirit<\/h3>\n

Jesus does not fully reveal the Holy Spirit until after his Resurrection. However, he suggests it little by little,<\/strong> even in his teaching to the crowd, when he reveals that his Flesh will be food for the life of the world. He also suggests it to Nicodemus, to the Samaritan woman and to those who participate in the feast of Tabernacles.<\/p>\n

To his disciples he speaks of him openly about prayer:<\/strong> St. Luke records this in verse 11 of his Gospel<\/a>If you who are evil know how to give good things to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him\".<\/p>\n

And when he explains to them the testimony they will have to give, he says: \"When you are arrested, do not worry about what you will say or how you will speak. When that time comes, you will be told what you have to say. For it is not you who will speak, but the Spirit of the Father who will speak for you\". Catechism of the Catholic Church 689-690<\/em><\/p>\n

The Paraclete who is God himself who gives himself to us to make us sharers in his divine nature. He acts in us by giving us interior consolation,<\/strong> that we can experience as an increase of faith, hope, charity, peace or joy that draws us to Him.<\/p>\n

\"No one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except by the Holy Spirit,\" says St. Paul in the Epistle to the Corinthians. And in the Epistle to the Galatians: \"God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying 'Abba, Father'\".<\/p>\n

\"Mari\u0301a-Santi\u0301sima-esposa-del-Espi\u0301ritu-Santo\"<\/p>\n

The Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary<\/h3>\n

He prepared Mary with his grace. Mary, \"full of grace\" the Mother of the One in whom \"all the fullness of the divinity resides bodily\".<\/p>\n

In Mary, the Divine Grace fulfills the benevolent plan of the Father.<\/strong>. The Virgin<\/a> conceives and gives birth to the Son of God through the work of the Holy Spirit. Her virginity becomes a unique fruitfulness through the power of the Spirit and faith.<\/p>\n

In short, through Mary, the Holy Spirit begins to put people in communion with Christ.<\/strong> \"object of God's benevolent love\". Catechism of the Catholic Church 721-726<\/em><\/p>\n

The Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian<\/h3>\n

The knowledge of faith is possible only in Divine Grace. To enter into contact with Christ, it is necessary first of all to have been attracted by Divine Grace. He, with the Most Blessed Trinity, comes to dwell in the soul through the sacrament of Baptism. The Holy Spirit with His grace is the \"first\" who awakens us to faith.<\/strong> and initiates us into the new life that comes from knowing the one true God and the one God sent to us, Jesus Christ. Catechism of the Catholic Church 737-742<\/p>\n

It is impossible to live a Christian life without Divine Grace, for it is our companion and the protagonist of our lives, Pope Francis said during his homily in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta.<\/p>\n

\"You cannot walk in a Christian life without the Holy Spirit.\"<\/strong>Pope Francis pointed out, and added that we ask the Lord for the grace to understand this message, because \"He is our companion on the journey\".<\/p>\n

The Holy Father explains that without the Holy Spirit, who is our strength, we can do nothing.<\/strong>The Spirit \"makes us rise from our limits, from our dead, because we have so many, so many necroses in our life, in our soul\". It is therefore necessary that we Christians make a place for him in our existence.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the Pope stressed that a Christian life that does not reserve space for the Holy Spirit and does not allow itself to be guided by Him \"is a pagan life, disguised as Christian. He is the protagonist of the Christian life, the Spirit who is with us, accompanies us, transforms us, conquers us\".<\/p>\n

Francis made a call in Santa Marta to the Pope to all Catholics should be aware \"that we cannot be Christians without walking with the Holy Spirit\".<\/strong>without acting with Him, without letting Him be the protagonist of our lives\".<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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