NAME OF PROGRAM: New Life
PRESENTER: Kimberly Kramar
TOPIC: The process of the Holy Spirit
PROGRAM
# 10
Live transmission: Monday,
May 8, 2017
Time: Miami 8:00pm /
Mexico 18:00pm / Colombia 19:00pm / Argentina 22:00hrs / Europe 1:00am
EMAIL: newlife@jcn.network
SPECIAL GUESTS: Music ministry - Kiki Troia, Margarita
Araux and Marco López
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Purpose of message:
To approach the Person of the Holy Spirit to know
how He can transform us if we open ourselves to his action together with the
Father and the Son, an indivisible Trinity who wishes to make us partakers of
the New Life, to transform the face of the earth and share with them eternal
glory.
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Ps 139, 7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or
where can I flee from Your presence?
Who is the Holy Spirit?
According
to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Holy Spirit is the "Third
Person of the Holy Trinity"; As we recite in the old Creed (Nicene -
Constantinople) is "Lord and giver of Life", comes from the
"Father and the Son" and together with them "receive the same
adoration and glory."
The
ultimate in the revelation of this indivisible Trinity is the first to awaken
us in faith to initiate us into a New Life. The Holy Spirit is, therefore, a
gift of God through which He has poured out His love into our hearts (cf. Rom
5: 5). As our dear Pope Francis said, a gift "active in us" that
allows us to remember, to remember, to renew ourselves ... However, as we
have read and heard so many times, the Holy Spirit is also called "the
great unknown." The more indifferent and forgetful we are, the more we
will distance ourselves from its powerful action and, likewise, we will be
missing the opportunity to receive His sanctifying grace.
Although
from the old covenant God had chosen men and women to speak in his name and
prepare the people for the coming of the Messiah, many - and to this day -
did not listen to the Spirit of God who spoke through the mouth of Isaiah,
Jeremiah and The other prophets. Not even those who had been baptized with water
by John, the last prophet, remembered his announcement:
Jn 1, 22 – 33 So
they said to him, "Who are you, so we can give an answer to those who
sent us? What do you have to say for yourself?" (v. 25-26) They asked him, "Why then do you
baptize if you are not the Messiah or Elijah or the Prophet?" John
answered them, "I baptize with water; but there is one among you whom
you do not recognize, (v. 33) I did
not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'On
whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will
baptize with the holy Spirit.'
When Paul
arrived at Ephesus, he asked disciples:
Acts 19, 2 – 3 He said to them, "Did you
receive the holy Spirit when you became believers?" They answered him,
"We have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." He said, "How were you
baptized?" They replied, "With the baptism of John."
Our tendency to forget seems peculiar to our
ungrateful humanity. The Holy Spirit is therefore that great unknown of our
faith, defined by St. Teresa of Jesus "as a strong hurricane, [which]
brings the vessel of our soul to holiness more than an hour, than what we had
obtained in months and Years rowing with our own forces."
Memory is, then, part of the process that the
Holy Spirit does in us, not only for the recognition of His Person, but also
to open the door of salvation. Bishop Alfonso Uribe Jaramillo, who along with
my mother was one of the pioneers of the Charismatic Renewal in Colombia and
therefore a great proclaimer of the baptism in the Spirit, wrote: "When
we open our lives to the enlightening and sanctifying action of the Holy
Spirit, He begins by discovering us and making us savor the ineffable reality
of the Fatherhood of God."
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1 Cor 12, 3 And no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the holy
Spirit.
The Holy Spirit in the Life
of Jesus
Young Catechism of the Church - Youcat 114
"Without the
Holy Spirit you can not understand Jesus. In his life was shown as never
before the presence of the Spirit of God that we call the Holy Spirit.
It was the Holy Spirit who called the human
life to Jesus in the womb of the Virgin Mary (Mt 1, 18), confirmed him as the
beloved Son (Lk 4, 16-19), guided him (Mk 1, 12) and He revived it to the end
(Jn 19, 30). On the Cross Jesus breathed the Spirit. After his resurrection
he gave his disciples the Holy Spirit (Jn 20, 20). With this the Spirit
passed to the Church: "As the Father has sent me, so I send you"
(Jn 20, 21)”.
Gal 4, 4 – 6 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his
Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to ransom those under the
law, so that we might receive adoption. As proof that you are children, God sent the spirit of his
Son into our hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!"
• Believing in the Holy Spirit means
recognizing ourselves as children of God, joint heirs with Christ, unified
with Him to carry out the mission of changing the face of the earth
• The New Life of the Children of God
"In
Jesus Christ God Himself became man and granted us to contemplate in a
certain way the intimacy of God Himself. And there we see something totally
unexpected: the mysterious God is not an infinite solitude; It is an event
of love. There is the Son who speaks with the Father. And both are one in the
Spirit, which is, so to speak, the atmosphere of giving and loving that makes
them one God."
Benedict
XVI, Vigil of Pentecost, 2006
The Holy Spirit in the Church
In
paragraph 4 of the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium, the constant action of the Holy Spirit in the Church is
explicit:
"The
Holy Spirit was sent on the day of Pentecost, in order to sanctify the Church
indefinitely, so that the faithful may have access to the Holy Spirit."
(cf. Jn 17, 4). Father through Christ in one Spirit (cf. Eph 2, 18). He is
the Spirit of life or the spring of water that jumps to eternal life (cf. Jn
4,14; 7, 38-39), by whom the Father gives life to men, dead by sin, until he
resurrects his Mortal bodies in Christ (cf. Rom 8, 10-11). The Spirit dwells
in the Church and in the hearts of the faithful as in a temple (cf. 1 Cor 3,
16. 6, 19), and in them prays and testifies to their adoption as sons (cf.
Rom 8, 15-16. 26). It guides the Church to all truth (cf. Jn 16, 13), unifies
it in communion and ministry, provides and governs it with various
hierarchical and charismatic gifts and embellishes it with its fruits (cf.
Eph 4, 11-12; 1 Co 12, 4; Ga 5, 22). With the strength of the Gospel, it
rejuvenates the Church, renews it incessantly and leads it to the consummate
union with its Bridegroom. Indeed, the Spirit and the Bride say to the Lord
Jesus: Come! (cf. Ap 22, 17).
And so
the whole Church appears as "a people gathered together by virtue of the
unity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."
"We can not understand the greatness and
vitality of the Church if we do not see it full of the Holy Spirit"
Bishop
Alfonso Uribe Jaramillo
"In
addition to being a source of the truth and vital principle of the identity
of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church, the Holy Spirit is also the
source and principle of the sacramental life, through which the Church takes
strength from Christ, His holiness, is nourished by his grace, grows and
advances in his pilgrimage to eternity. The Holy Spirit, who is at the origin
of the Incarnation of the Word, is the living source of all the sacraments
instituted by Christ and administered by the Church. Precisely through the
sacraments, he gives men the "new life", associating the Church as
a cooperator in this saving action ".
Congregation
for the Clergy, http://www.clerus.org
How does the Holy Spirit arise?
Names, symbols and sacramental presence
"The Holy Spirit is the author, the
diffuser and almost the breath of the grace of Christ in us"
John
Paul II, General Audience
- The
pigeon: the symbol valid from antiquity to the present day:
Youcat
115 The Holy
Spirit descends upon Jesus in the form of a dove. The early Christians
experienced the Holy Spirit as a healing anointing, living water, impetuous
wind or flaming fire. Jesus Christ himself speaks of Him as help, comforter,
teacher and Spirit of Truth.
(...) The
peace that God established with men after the flood was announced to Noah by
the appearance of a dove. Pagan antiquity also knew the dove as a symbol of
love. In this way the early Christians quickly understood why the Holy
Spirit, the love of God made person, descended upon Jesus in the form of a
dove, when he was baptized in the Jordan. Today the dove is the sign of peace
known throughout the world and one of the great symbols of the reconciliation
of men with God (cf. Gen 8, 10-11).
- Water:
the symbolism of water is significant of the action of the Holy Spirit in
Baptism, since water becomes the sacramental sign of the new birth.
- By
the anointing: symbolizes the force. The anointing with oil is synonymous
with the Holy Spirit. In the sacrament of Confirmation anointed the confirmed
to prepare him to be a witness of Christ.
- The
seal: symbol close to the anointing. It indicates the indelible character
of the anointing of the Spirit in the sacraments and speaks of the
consecration of the Christian.
- Fire:
symbolizes the transforming energy of the acts of the Spirit.
- The
cloud and the light: they are inseparable symbols in the manifestations
of the Holy Spirit. Thus it descends on the Virgin Mary to "cover it
with its shadow". On Mount Tabor, in the Transfiguration, the day of the
Ascension; a shadow and a cloud appear.
- Imposition
of hands: through this action the Apostles and now the Bishops transmit
the "gift of the Spirit".
"The sacraments are the means of grace
instituted by Jesus Christ to save us"
John
Paul II, in General Audience, citing the old catechism
Tit 3, 5 Not because of any righteous deeds we had done
but because of his mercy, he saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal
by the holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit in us
Catholics received the Holy Spirit
on the day of our baptism:
1 Cor 12, 13
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or
Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.
Acts 2, 38 Peter [said] to
them, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus
Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the
Holy Spirit.
Youcat 120 The Holy Spirit opens me to God; teaches me to pray and helps me to
be available to others. "The silent guest of our soul,"
St. Augustine calls the Holy Spirit. Whoever wants to perceive it must be
silent. Often this guest speaks softly within us, for example in the voice of
our conscience or through internal and external impulses. To be "temple
of the Holy Spirit" means to be in body and soul at the disposal of this
guest, of God in us. Our body is therefore, in a way, the living room with
God. The more we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit in us, the more he will
become the teacher of our life, the more he will give us today his charisms
for the edification of the Church. In this way, instead of the works of the
flesh, the fruits of the Spirit will grow in us.
• We do not see the Spirit, but we know it
through its action in each of us and for its impact on the Church we
constitute: holy, catholic and apostolic
Jn 14, 16 – 17 And I will ask the Father, and he will
give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, which
the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know
it, because it remains with you, and will be in you.
"Jesus has kept his promises:
he has risen, he has ascended into heaven and, in union with the Eternal
Father, he sends us the Holy Spirit to sanctify us and give us life.
The strength and power of God
illuminates the face of the earth. The Holy Spirit continues to assist the
Church of Christ, so that it may be - always and in everything - a sign
raised before the nations, which announces to mankind the benevolence and
love of God. However great our limitations may be, men can look with
confidence at the heavens and feel full of joy: God loves us and frees us from
our sins. The presence and action of the Holy Spirit in the Church is the
pledge and anticipation of eternal happiness, joy and peace that God has for
us.
We too, like those first who
approached St. Peter on the day of Pentecost, have been baptized. At baptism,
Our Father God has taken possession of our lives, has incorporated us into
the life of Christ and sent us the Holy Spirit. "
Saint Josemaría
Escrivá de Balaguer, It is Christ who passes, n. 127
1 Cor 6, 11 That is what some of you used to
be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
• Free from sin (Jn 20, 23)
• Confirmed in faith (Acts 8, 17; 19, 6)
• Sealed with the Spirit of the Promise, pledge
of our inheritance (Eph 1, 13-14)
• Reconciled by Christ himself after the
resurrection (Jn 20, 22-23)
• Anointed and united in prayer to raise the
sick, to see them safe and sound in the Name of the Lord
• Bearers of the Spirit of Life through the Holy
Eucharist (Jn 6, 63), to enjoy an experience of communion through the
"outpouring of the Holy Spirit"
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Gifts and charisms of the Holy
Spirit
Charisms: from the Greek charis: gift, grace, favor, talent. The free gifts of the Holy
Spirit are called
1 Cor 12, 4 – 11 There
are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms
of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God
who produces all of them in everyone. To each individual the manifestation of the
Spirit is given for some benefit. To one is given through the Spirit the expression of
wisdom; to another the expression of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the
same Spirit; to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit; to another mighty deeds; to
another prophecy; to another discernment of spirits; to another varieties of
tongues; to another interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit
produces all of these, distributing them individually to each person as he
wishes.
• Witnesses to the ends of the earth
Pentecost: from the Greek pentecoste:
"the day fifty" after Easter. In its origin was a festival in which
Israel celebrated the covenant of the covenant with God in Sinai. By the
event of Pentecost in Jerusalem became for the Christians in the feast of
the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2, 1 – 4 When
the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came
from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire
house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire,
which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled
with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit
enabled them to proclaim.
• Far from fear, full of courage, enthusiasm
and offering their own life for the communication of the Kingdom of God on
earth. Fully aware of his baptism in the Holy Spirit
Baptism in the Spirit
Alfonso Uribe Jaramillo explains
in the Seminar on Life in the Spirit: it is not a new sacrament, it does not
mean that the Holy Spirit is received for the first time (already present in
baptism and confirmation); It is not receiving a great perfection in a sudden
way; It is not the prize for great personal holiness; Is not a method to
avoid the difficulties inherent in all Christian life.
Baptism in the Spirit is an event
in our lives, in which the Lord descends from the mind to the heart and
experiences the loving presence of the Father, of Christ and of the Holy
Spirit, and the manifestation of His power that enables us to be true
Witnesses of Jesus and ministers of his total salvation.
It is to open the whole person for
this Divine Spirit to take possession of it and, from now on, the Orient. It
is to have a deep experience of the loving presence of God in our lives that
facilitates the total surrender to Him. It is to relive the grace of Baptism
and Confirmation and the other commitments acquired with the Lord throughout
our lives. It is a first great step of a new spiritual path under the loving
action of the Spirit.
Fruits of this experience
• Great love for the Word of God, which is
"spirit and life"
• Intense thirst for prayer
• Filial appreciation for the Blessed Virgin:
she enters our life in a new way
• Filial love for the Holy Father and
appreciation for the Magisterium
• Value for the community, need to love and
to project to it with generosity
• The charisms appear in their great exercise
• Ineffable joy in living the experience of
the loving person of the Lord in our life
What do you do to receive it?
• Believing in this reality, knowing what it
is
• Asking for it
Lk 11, 13 If
you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how
much more will the Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask
him?"
Ps 139, 7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee
from Your presence?
Closing prayer:
Come Holy Spirit, send your light from heaven. Loving father of the
poor; Gift, in your splendid gifts; Light that penetrates the souls; Source
of greatest comfort.
Come, sweet guest of the soul, rest of our effort, truce in the hard
work, breeze in the hours of fire, joy that wipes the tears and comfort in
the duels.
Enter to the bottom of the soul, divine light and enrich us. Look at
the emptiness of man if You lack within; Look at the power of sin when you do
not send your breath.
It waters the earth in drought, heals the sick heart, cleans the
stains, infuses the heat of life in the ice, dresses the indomitable spirit,
guides the one who twists the path.
Share your Seven Gifts according to the faith of your servants. By
your goodness and your grace give the effort its merit; Save the one who
seeks salvation and give us your eternal joy.
Amen.
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