The sense of divine filiation, an effect of the gift of piety, moves us to treat God with the tenderness and affection of a good son toward his father, and to treat other people as brothers who belong to the same family.
The Old Testament manifests this gift in many ways, particularly in the prayer that the Chosen People constantly address to God: praise and petition; sentiments of adoration before the infinite divine greatness; intimate confidences, in which they express with all simplicity to the heavenly Father their joys and sorrows, their hope... In a particular way, we find in the psalms all the sentiments that fill the soul in its trusting relationship with the Lord.
When the fullness of time had come, Jesus Christ taught us the proper tone in which we should address God. When you pray, you must say: Father... In all circumstances of life, we must turn to God with this filial trust: Father, Abba... In various places in the New Testament, the Holy Spirit has chosen to leave us this Aramaic word: abba, which was the affectionate term Hebrew children used to address their parents. This sentiment defines our attitude and guides our prayer before God. He "is not a distant being, who indifferently observes the fate of men: their efforts, their struggles, their anxieties. He is a Father who loves his children to the point of sending the Word, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, so that, becoming incarnate, he might die for us and redeem us. The same loving Father who now gently draws us to himself, through the action of the Holy Spirit who dwells in our hearts."2
God wants us to treat him with complete trust, as little and needy children. All our piety is nourished by this fact: we are children of God. And the Holy Spirit, through the gift of piety, teaches us and facilitates this trusting relationship of a child with his Father.
See what love the Father has shown us, that we should be called children of God, and so we are. 3 “It seems as if after saying that we should be called children of God, Saint John paused for a long time, while his spirit penetrated deeply into the immensity of the love that the Father has given us, not limiting himself to simply calling us children of God, but making us his children in the most authentic sense. This is what makes Saint John exclaim: and so we are!” 4 The Apostle invites us to consider the immense good of divine sonship that we receive with the grace of Baptism, and encourages us to second the action of the Holy Spirit who prompts us to treat our Father God with ineffable trust and tenderness.
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