Homily ng Sto. Papa sa Pentekostes

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http://zenit.org/article-29347?l=english

It's not for nothing that in the language of Jesus "fire" is above all a representation of the cross, w/o which Christianity does not exist
We must know how to recognize that..losing ourselves forDtrue God, DGod of love&life, is..gaining ourselves, finding ourselves more fully

He had previously said was realized: "I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how I long that it already be burning!" The fire of God, the fire of the Holy Spirit, is that of the bush that burned without being consumed.

It is a flame that burns but does not destroy, that, in burning, brings forth the better and truer part of man, as in a fusion it makes his interior form emerge, his vocation to truth and to love.

DChurch is one&multiple..destined as she is to live among all nations/peoples,in the most diverse social contexts. She responds2 her vocation to be a sign&instrument of unity ofDhuman race if she remains free from every state and every particular culture. [The Church is the]house of all in which each one can find a place.

homogenization..d modelOfBabel..dImpositionOfA culture of unity that we could call "technological."..in Babel everyone spoke d same language. At Pentecost..DApostles speak different languages..everyone understands the message in his own tongue. DUnity of the Spirit is manifested inD plurality of understanding. DChurch is one&multiple.

When a person or a community, limits itself to its own way of thinking&acting, it's a sign that it has distanced itself from the Holy Spirit
unity is the sign of recognition, the "business card" of the Church in the course of her universal history.
Persons, often reduced to individuals in competition or in conflict with each other, by d Spirit of Christ, open themselves2d experience of communion, can involve them to such an extent as2make of them a new organism: Church

The Spirit triggers a process of reunification of the divided and dispersed parts of the human family
Where there are divisions and estrangement he creates unity and understanding.

The Son of God, dead and risen and returned to the Father, now breathes with untold energy the divine breath upon humanity, the Holy Spirit.

-- my heart rejoices in the Lord!

Prayer based on Dives in Misericordia

Jesus, Mercy made flesh, you have revealed God and showed his relationship of love & mercy with us. You showed how close He is especially in our sufferings. You have revealed man to us and you have asked to us to be guided by love and mercy. Send us the Holy Spirit to move us to be aware that everytime we fall into sin, we experience the loss of dignity as children of God.

Your Mercy is concretely expressed in our conversion. Jesus, you have undergone the cross to bear upon our sin & to restore the creative power in man to access the fullness of life & holiness. Our Redemption shows your mercy in it's fullness, the ultimate and definitive revelation of your holiness, your absolute fullness of perfection: the fullness of justice & of love. By your passion & death, you have shown the absolute & superabundance of justice. By your sacrifice, the Father is linked to us more intimately than that of creation. Now we are linked to the Father, our Abba, by the bond of love that grants us participation in d very life of the Trinity.

You have paid for our sins at the price of your sacrifice, of your obedience even to death. You have redeemed us from Death at the price of your death, for you are w/o sin & you alone are able—by means of your own death—to inflict death upon death. Your cross, Lord Jesus, makes us understand the deepest roots of evil, which are fixed in sin and death.

You are the God Of Mercy. Let this knowledge be our constant & inexhaustible source of our conversion. Let us experience the interior transformation when we love and show mercy to our neighbors. Remind us that in doing this, we also receive mercy from the same people

When we seek for true justice, remind us that it only has True mercy as it's profound source. When we concern ourselves only of reciprocal and equal distribution of objective & extrinsinc goods, remind us that love and only love is capable of restoring us to ourselves. That the most perfect incarnation of justice and of "equality" between people is Mercy which makes people meet one another in that value which is man himself. May we see that justice constitute the goal of forgiveness where he who forgives and he who is forgiven encounter one another at an essential point, the dignity of the person. That justice is necessary in order that love may reveal its own nature. We pray for a human society with justice, merciful love and forgiveness.

Remind us that forgiveness is more powerful than sin. That it is also d fundamental condition for reconciliation, not only in d relationship of God w/man,but also in relationships bet people. Give us the grace to acknowledge that we are trespassers against each other. Make us see that forgiveness, when it has Mercy as it's source, doesn't mean indulgence toward evil, scandals, injury or insult but it is a reparation for evil and scandal, compensation for insult.

Mother Mary, our mother in the order of grace,help us win the battle, the conflict that is within us, the battle with our disordered attraction to sin. Help us preserve our sense of what is sacred and deliver us from elements that dehumanizes us and cause our society's moral decay. We pray that we, the Church, continue to reveal You, our Father, you who allow us to "see" yourself in Christ. Amen

-- my heart rejoices in the Lord!