FROM mother Adela's heart
"The
Virgin Mary and Pentecost"
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May 2002
My dear brothers and Sisters:
We prepare ourselves for Pentecost, that day in
which our Church commemorates the unforgettable
moment when the Apostles, in prayer together
with our Blessed Mother, received the power of
the Holy Spirit through many different signs
which gave testimony to effects brought about by
the anointing of the Spirit upon the group of
Apostles.
I feel the urgent need to underline and stress
the fact that the Apostles were united together
in prayer with the Blessed Mother, a fundamental
element that many times goes unnoticed; however
the presence of the Mother of Jesus is
significant for that singular event in which the
Church, born of the Side of Christ, received the
sanctifying power of the Spirit and at the same
time, the power which would enable it to launch
itself forward on its mission of evangelization.
In the prayer that Pope John XXIII prayed at the
beginning of the Second Vatican Council, in
which he asked for a new Pentecost for the
Church, we see that he lays out for us the
elements that are necessary so that this new
anointing would flow upon the Church of our
times:
“Divine Spirit, renew your wonders in our era as
if it were a new Pentecost, and grant that your
Church, praying together, perseveringly and
insistently, with one heart and mind, together
with Mary, the Mother of Jesus and guided by
Peter, can promote the reign of the Divine
Savior, the reign of justice, of love and of
peace.”
“Together with Mary”
Why is it so important that we pray insistently
for a new Pentecost, and that we do it together
with Mary? Because Mary Most Holy, has been
called by the Church, and in a particular way,
by Saint Francis of Assisi, “Spouse of the Holy
Spirit”. The word “Spouse” expresses the
intimate and profound relation between Mary and
the Holy Spirit. This intimate and singular
union between the Holy Spirit and Mary begins at
the moment of the Immaculate Conception, within
the womb of her mother, Saint Anne. In this
mystical union and through it, God preserves
Mary from all original sin. He also fills her
with such abundant grace, that it would one day
allow her to become the Mother of God.
The Holy Spirit and Mary in the coming of
Jesus
Mary is the “Masterpiece work of the Holy
Spirit”, which not only reveals, but also allows
us to see more clearly the work that the Holy
Spirit desires to do in His creatures. The
relationship between Mary and the Holy Spirit is
of a love that is reciprocal and fruitful. In
the moment of the Annunciation, because of the
receptivity of Mary to grace and to the power of
the Holy Spirit, that came to her and covered
her with his shadow, she became abundantly
fruitful, conceiving in her womb the Word made
flesh. The union of the Holy Spirit and Mary
Most Holy has Jesus as its blessed fruit; has as
its fruit the coming of Christ. This mission is
not limited to the moment of the Annunciation.
All of the new comings of Christ, for the Church
and for the world, require the powerful action
of the Holy Spirit and the full cooperation of
the Virgin Mary.
These spiritual comings which signify a renewal
in faith, in prayer, in conversion, in the
sacramental life, as well as a greater apostolic
zeal and a particular anointing of the Church to
respond to the needs and the battles of its
historic moment, will always be the fruit of the
powerful work of the Holy Spirit with the
cooperation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. All
comings are realized in the light of the first
one.
“O Mary, you who are the Mother of the Church,
obtain for the Church the gift of the Holy
Spirit, so that it will know how to continue
with constancy towards the future down the path
of renewal marked by the Holy Spirit, and so
that she will know how to assume within that
work of renewal, all that is true and good,
assiduously discerning among the signs of the
times, that which serves for the coming of the
Reign of God.” (John Paul II, Pentecost Day,
1982)
Sanctuary of the Holy Spirit
The Virgin Mary is also the “Sanctuary of the
Holy Spirit”. In her the Holy Spirit has resided
and resides fully, forming her Heart so that she
may be the new Ark of the Covenant, in which
would dwell God made Man. Her Heart is the
permanent Cenacle in which the Holy Spirit pours
forth to form the hearts of men in the image of
the Word Incarnate. “God the Holy Spirit became
fruitful in Mary, his Spouse. With Her, in Her
and from Her, He produced his masterpiece, God
made man, and brought forth for all time, until
the end of the world, within the members of the
Mystical body, children of God, in the likeness
of the Only Son. For this reason, the more that
He finds Mary present, His beloved and
indissoluble Spouse, in a soul, that much more
powerful and dynamic does the Holy Spirit
manifest Himself in order to produce Jesus
Christ in that soul and it in Jesus Christ.” (
St. Louis de Montfort)
Together with Mary Most Holy and through her
powerful intercession, may we open the doors of
our hearts and of the entire Church, so that the
blazing wind of the Holy Spirit may flow
powerfully, bringing about the gift of a new and
so necessary Pentecost.
In the Love of the Pierced Hearts,
Mother Adela, SCTJM
Foundress
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