“he
Spirit of the Lord adorned the heavens” (understand it adorned the heavens) job
26,13. To then continue, as if specifying
which heavens he refers to: Because it is not you who speak, but the
Spirit of the Father is the one who speaks in you. Mat, c. 10
Thus,
we see that the divine Savior said them to guard us against the presumption of
our strength, he made us know how insufficient human smallness is, and to lead
us to trust in his gifts, he suggested to us how influential divine largesse
is. And certainly come to the conclusion that the word of God is never the
harvest of human ingenuity but rather the fruit of divine bounty. This is why,
when the words are preceded: It is not you who speak, it
alludes to how insufficient or indigent human smallness is and because, when it
is added: It is the Spirit of your Father who speaks for you, it
indicates what it is the divine largesse. Far from us, therefore, very
expensive, to be of the number of those who said:with our tongues we will
triumph our lips are ours. Whereby it is deduced that this gift is
only exclusive to be given by the Eternal Father to those who are really HUMBLE
supposedly necessary in the soul to receive any of the seven gifts of the Holy
Spirit, only the proud spirits and full of themselves are excluded from these
gifts. and even the gift of tongues. The latter is only given when God
wants, whom He wants and when He wants, this is said by virtue of the
divine gift to which not everyone is called but to those who are chosen by God
and for a SPECIFIC PURPOSEin such a way that not just anyone is given as
if they were candy. This is said so that the soul is not deceived of having
received it because it can easily fall into the illusions of the devil and
mistake it as gifts from the eternal Father. ¡So be warned lest the devil
surprise you saying, It is a gift of God, ¡it is a gift of God when in
reality it is a deception of the devil where he leads you to hell!
Let
us beg, on the contrary, unanimously to the Lord, giver of all goods, that by
his grace and clemency he will free us from the insufficiency of human
smallness, free us from the illusions and deceptions of the devil, and deign,
though most unworthy, to communicate his divine largesse, so that, by virtue of
it, we may be given to speak and hear things concerning the praise and glory of
the Almighty and the grace and consolation of each one of the listeners.
At
first it was said: The Holy Spirit adorned the heavens. The
Holy Spirit, sovereign architect as he would like to enclose in the apostles,
his heavens, as in sacred vessels, the name of Christ, delicious as the manna
from heaven and fragrant as the divine aroma. I adorn them first, on the day of
Pentecost, with the beauty of shapes tinged with heavenly splendors. Such is
the gift communicated to the Church, and the Church our mother remembers it
today more solemnly on this solemnity more than on other solemnities, when she
celebrates it when she says: The spirit of the Lord adorned the heavenswords
that truly describe, and not without order, the grace of the day from three
points of view. Considering it in effect, in relation to the effective
principle (Here the Holy Spirit is called as the cause of all this solemnity),
naming him personally; in relation to the receptive subject (Here the apostles
are designated as the recipients of the gifts) and in relation to the
intermediate exortive act (The miracles that were worked through the apostles
after the tongues of fire rested on them). And this is how what was said above
fits very well in this order: the first The Spirit of the Lord; second, The
heavens that, as we said, are spoken of about the apostles and
third; Ornó, that is to say, ornament.And, indeed, excellent and
unique were the gifts and virtues with which the apostles were adorned.
As
for the first point, you should know that the Holy Spirit has in himself three
properties, according to which he is the beginning and cause of many other
gifts, which contribute radically and essentially to the grace of this
day. It has, in effect, infallible truth, communicable charity, and
unsurpassed power. In this way, being the highest truth, it is the source
of the radiance of the believing intelligence speaking of man, for being the
highest charity since benevolent love comes from Him (as it is said in the
apostles' creed I believe in the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the
Father and Son ...),and benefactor; and, lastly, because it is the ultimate
power, it is the source from which comes the constant, manly vigor by virtue of
which the will is strengthened. And that these three requirements are necessary
for man to be saved, whatever his condition, his sex, his age, is something
that cannot be denied. The reason is because every adult, if he is to be in a
state of salvation, must believe in what is proposed to him in the Holy
Scriptures and this is an act of intelligence, benevolent and benevolent
charity which is an act of the will. and persevering constancy in hope. And
these three gifts by which man resembles the Trinitarian people, flowed from
her, as a top secret source, and were communicated today as firstfruits to the
apostles.And let it be known that this list of gifts corresponds to the list of
evils incurred by reason of the first sin, of which the first is dark
ignorance, the second malicious envy, and the third morbid impotence.
Thus,
the Holy Spirit, being INFALLIBLE TRUTH, produces a clear knowledge in our
understanding, removing the darkness of ignorance. Where it is said in Saint
John: When he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will teach you all the
truth c, 16. And this he did by descending, according to the promise of
Christ, on the apostles, illuminating them in an excellent and perfect way that
raised them, as far as possible, to know and speculate with a clear gaze the
mystery of divinity. Well what? Was it not on the day of Pentecost the very
profound knowledge of the apostles, launched to preach with clear words that
Christ is the son of God and that he rose from the dead, an argument that,
under the cover of dark words, words and enigmas, was predicted? ¿by the
prophets? Tell me, then, please, who was it that taught them to speak of such
arcane things with such simplicity and evidence? Perhaps the profession they
had as fishermen? Was it the flesh or the blood? No, by the way. Let us
therefore conclude that we must give indubitable assent, not like old
women,neither to the sophisms of philosophers nor to the lies of magicians, but
to the certain truth of the Holy Spirit.
For
the Holy Spirit is a doctor and doctor so well versed and proven by ancient experience
in all kinds of knowledge, that his doctrine is inaccessible to the condition
and irreducible rejection of the tight logical moment of re-conviction, since
the Holy Spirit cannot deceive and cannot deceive.
As
for the second, which is the highest Charity, it works in the affective, call
it the will of man, against the position of malicious envy, with broad and
benevolent benevolence, where it is said in the letter to the Romans: Because
love of God has been poured out into us by virtue of the Holy Spirit, who has
been given to us c. 5. And the charity of God is poured into our
hearts when, born from the heart not superficial, but deeply and deeply, it
expands the affection and moves all the forces of the soul to the choice of all
the elect, ¡Oh how long and wide of spread throughout the world the charity of
the apostles, who in favor of all the elect wished to give their lives, ¡giving
themselves to death! But because because of the excess of wickedness,
charity was cooled in many (¿If in the time of Saint Bonaventure we are told
this, how much more so in current times where charity is conspicuous by its
absence? Now it is supplanted by Masonic and criminal philanthropism).
As
for the third, the Holy Spirit with his insurmountable power in contrast to
morbid impotence, gave invigorating capacity and consistency to all tests, in
other words, he gave them sufficient intrepidity and courage, according to what
is said in the Acts of the Apostles: You will receive the virtue of the
Holy Spirit, as if it were strength, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,
in all Judea, in Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
Our
Lord Jesus Christ, when he sent the apostles to fight against the violence of
tyrants and against the cunning of demons, he wanted first to equip them with
the gifts of the Holy Spirit with spiritual gifts or weapons and to strengthen
them with the virtue of the Holy Spirit. On this Saint Gregory
comments: "The virtue of heaven was received by the Spirit, so
that they would not presume to face the powers of this world without having
been consolidated by the strength of the Holy Spirit"
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