Docility to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit

 


 

 Docility to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit is necessary to preserve the life of grace and to bear supernatural fruit. As the Lord tells us in the parable we have been meditating on, the seed in our heart has the necessary strength to germinate, grow and bear fruit. But first of all it is necessary to let it reach the soul, to give it room in our interior, to welcome it and not to leave it aside, because "God's opportunities do not wait. They come and go. The word of life does not wait; if we do not appropriate it, the devil will take it away. 

He is not lazy, on the contrary, his eyes are always open and he is always ready to jump in and take the gift that you do not use "5: to live the small mortification of leaving the instruments of work in order, to confess on the day that was planned, to make the examination of conscience with the necessary commitment to realize what is wrong and in what the Lord wants the struggle to be put the next day, to live the "heroic minute" when getting up, to divert or at least to keep silent in that conversation in which an absent person does not look good.... The resistance to grace produces on the soul the same effect as "hail on a tree in flower that promised abundant fruits; the flowers remain withered and the fruit does not arrive in season". The interior life is impoverished and dies.


The Holy Spirit gives us innumerable graces to avoid deliberate venial sin and those faults which, without being sin properly speaking, are displeasing to God; the saints have been the ones who have responded most delicately to these supernatural aids. We also receive countless graces to sanctify the actions of ordinary life, carrying them out with human commitment, with perfection, with purity of intention, for noble human motives and for supernatural motives. 

If we are faithful, from morning to night, to the help we receive, our days will end filled with acts of love for God and neighbor, in pleasant moments and in those moments when perhaps we feel more tired, with less strength and courage: all are good for bearing fruit. One grace brings with it another - to him who has will be given,7 as we read yesterday in the Gospel of the Mass - and the soul is strengthened in the good to the extent that it practices it, the further it goes. Each day is a great gift that the Lord gives us so that we can fill it with love in a joyful correspondence, counting on the difficulties and obstacles and on the divine impulse to overcome them and turn them into a motive for holiness and apostolate. Everything is quite different when we do it out of love and for Love.



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