The Virgin Mary, "heart of the nascent Church," actively collaborates in the action of the Holy Spirit in souls.
Everything
that has been done in the Church from her birth to our days is the work
of the Holy Spirit: the evangelization of the world, conversions, the
strength of the martyrs, the holiness of her members... "What the soul
is to the body of man," teaches St. Augustine, "that is the Holy Spirit
in the Body of Jesus Christ which is the Church. The Holy Spirit does in
the Church what the soul does in the members of a body," gives it life,
develops it, is its principle of unity... Through Him we live the very
life of Christ Our Lord in union with Holy Mary, with all the angels and
saints in Heaven, with those who are preparing in Purgatory and those
who are still on pilgrimage on earth.
The Holy
Spirit is also the sanctifier of our soul. All good works, the
inspirations and desires that impel us to be better, the help needed to
carry them out Everything is the work of the Paraclete. "This Divine
Master puts his school in the interior of the souls who ask him and
ardently desire to have him as Master. "His action in the soul is
gentle, his experience is pleasant and pleasurable, and his yoke is very
light. His coming is preceded by the bright rays of his light and his
science. He comes with the truth of the genuine protector; for he comes
to save, to heal, to teach, to counsel, to strengthen, to comfort, to
enlighten, first the mind of the receiver, and then by the works of the
receiver, the mind of others.
And just as
he who was in darkness, when the sun rises, receives his light in the
eyes of the body and sees clearly what he did not see before, so he who
is found worthy of the gift of the Holy Spirit is enlightened in his
soul and, raised above his natural reason, sees what he did not know
before.
After
Pentecost Our Lady is "like the heart of the nascent Church. The Holy
Spirit, who had prepared her to be Mother of God, now, at Pentecost,
disposes her to be Mother of the Church and of each of us.
The Holy
Spirit does not cease to act in the Church, making new desires for
holiness arise everywhere, new children and at the same time better
children of God, who have in Jesus Christ the finished Model, since he
is the first-born of many brothers. Our Lady, collaborating actively
with the Holy Spirit in souls, exercises her motherhood over all her
children. Therefore she is proclaimed with the title of Mother of the
Church, "that is, Mother of all the People of God, both of the faithful
and of the pastors, who call her loving Mother, and we want her," Paul
VI proclaimed, "from now on to be honored and invoked by all the
Christian people with this most pleasing title.
Holy Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us and help us prepare for the coming of the Paraclete to our souls.
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