Gospel:Luke
10:21-24
Jesus
rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of
heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and
the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been
your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one
knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”
Turning
to the disciples in private he said, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you
see. For I say to you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but
did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.”
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Reflection:
What do
you need to do to fully grasp the grace of the Holy Spirit in your life? You
need to be humble, you need to be childlike for such is the life of Jesus: full
of humility and full of childlike trust.
The Holy
Spirit would reveal itself to us once we become humble and childlike. Thus, the
Holy Spirit will give us something that others don’t have and that is the
enlightenment to discern the workings of God in our lives.
Notice
the childlike excitement to be present at Mass. Observe the intense longing to
submit ourselves to the Sacrament of Reconciliation/Confession. Yet, not
everyone has this gift of feeling the profound presence of God in their life.
This is given free without any cost by the Holy Spirit to those who strive to
dive deeper into our Catholic faith.
We impede
the grace of the Holy Spirit into our lives when we trust more on our wealth
instead of God. When we are self-righteous, when we are corrupt, when we curse,
when we say profanities and swearwords. When we seek pornography and other
forms of Sin. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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