Spirituality for Beginners

Fr. Bede's almost-daily reflections. When it comes to the spiritual life, we're all beginners. I also send these out by email. Contact me at bcamera@anselm.edu. God bless!





Tuesday, August 25, 2015

The Holy Spirit is within you

God has done so much more for us than we are able to grasp, or accept, or to savor. Consider this: “The love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit that has been given to us” (Romans 5:5).

This is so great that it may be difficult for us to wrap our minds around it: We ALREADY have the Holy Spirit within us even if we’ve never been aware of it. But once we realize that we have been given this incredible gift—without doing anything to earn it—then, questions arise: How often do we access it? How often do we surrender to it? How often do we you seek its guidance in every detail of our lives? How have we managed to survive without continual daily recourse to something so much greater than we are in ourselves alone?

Sit with this for a while, today. Don’t try to think it to death. Simply breathe and allow yourself to be with it.  Begin to savor it. And then, when you are able, make up your own prayer to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will guide you as you do this.


More next time.

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