Pentecost: A
Movement of Love and Unification,
Moving Our Hearts From the ‘I to the We’
Sr. Amanda
Howard
First, this
paper will explore what Pentecost is, and who the Holy Spirit is
– including His role in the Church and His action in our
personal lives. I will explore in more depth the meaning of
God’s love for us. I will then look at what it means to move
our hearts from the ‘I to the we,’ or self preoccupation to
unselfishness, and the willingness to freely lay down our
lives. In order to help us move our hearts from the ‘I to the
we,’ and to thus reach the heights of love that the Lord is
calling, I will give proposals of seven steps we can use to help
us do this.
The Holy Spirit
at Pentecost
To begin, what is Pentecost? Pentecost is
a feast of the Church which commemorates the descent of the Holy
Spirit. It is the fulfillment of the promise of the Holy
Spirit, which came in great power upon the apostles after the
death and Resurrection of Jesus.[1]
Jesus had told his disciples that the gift of the Holy Spirit,
the promise of the Father, would be poured out upon them.
Tongues as of fire came to rest upon the heads of all the
disciples, and it transformed them with the power to preach the
Gospel of Christ with boldness.[2]
The goal or purpose of the descent of the Holy Spirit is to lead
our hearts to Jesus, and to spread the message that He came for
our liberation from sin, and to thus be united with Him forever
in Heaven.
Who is the Holy
Spirit?
Who is the Holy Spirit? He is nothing
other than God Himself. Scripture says, “God is spirit,”[3]
and “the Spirit of the Lord fills the whole world.”[4]
He is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father.[5]
Titles given for the Holy Spirit include the Comforter, the
Advocate, the Sanctifier, the Defender, and the Paraclete.[6]
He has the power to create, strengthen, and inspire. When the
Holy Spirit comes He fills us His people with His gifts and
fruits. The gifts of the spirit are: wisdom, understanding,
counsel, knowledge, piety, fortitude, fear of the Lord. The
fruits are: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness,
and self control.[7]
The more we draw close to the Holy Spirit and the more He enters
into us, the more we become united to Him.[8]
It is He who is our source of unity and love.
The Holy Spirit, as we profess in the
Nicene Creed, is the ‘Lord, the giver of life.’ How is He the
giver of life? The Spirit was present in the beginning, at
creation, as we read in Genesis: “The Spirit of God hovered
over the waters,”[9]
and at the creation of mankind, “God breathed into man the
breath of life.”[10]
Water is a symbol for life, and is
frequently used in reference to the Holy Spirit in Scripture.
In the gospel of John, the living water Jesus refers to when
speaking to the Samaritan woman is the presence of the Holy
Spirit. Just as physically we cannot survive without water,
neither can we survive without God, the Holy Spirit. On my
recent retreat in St. Augustine, I felt in my heart to really
meditate on this verse of the Scriptures: “My body pines for
you, like a dry, weary land without water.”[11]
Without water, we die, and without the power of God sustaining
our every breath at every moment – we die. Just as we cannot
live without breathing air, we cannot live without Him. He is
all around us – and as Scripture puts it, “Without Him, we can
do Nothing.”[12]
This life giving Holy Spirit, as the Holy
Father says, “quenches the ultimate and deepest thirst of man
which cries out for Him…and is a deep hunger and thirst for God
that can be quenched by no one else.”[13]
We see God always taking care of His people’s needs – sustaining
us both physically and spiritually.
The Holy
Spirit’s Role in the Life of the Church
The Holy Spirit gives us life spiritually
as well. This is mainly done through the seven sacraments
instituted by Jesus, with the authority to administer them given
to His church. Through the power of the Spirit at work in the
Sacraments, Christ can be present in all times and all places.[14]
One special feature of the Holy Spirit in
the role of the Church is the power to forgive sin. After His
Resurrection, Jesus breathed on His apostles and said, “Receive
the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them.”[15]
For example, four of the sacraments have the power to forgive
sins: Baptism, Eucharist, Anointing of the Sick, and
Reconciliation.[16]
In the Sacrament of Baptism, we receive
‘new life’ through which we are reborn in the spirit to enter
the kingdom of God,[17]
and it cleanses and heals our souls of all sin, including
original sin. In the sacrament of reconciliation, our soul can
be washed clean of sin through the priest acting in the person
of Jesus.
God’s Love for
Us
The Holy Spirit is the spirit of love, for
“God is Love.”[18]
“He is the Love of God poured into our hearts . . . ”[19]
I will now explore more in depth this profound love of God.
Scripture resounds with the goodness of
God the Father for us, who gently draws us back to Himself with
“bands of love.”[20]
Scripture states, “As high as the heavens are above the earth,
so God’s love towers over the faithful,”[21]
for, as it is repeated numerous times in Scripture, “His love
endureth forever.”[22]
God rejoices over repentant sinners, assuring us that, “there is
more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over
ninety-nine who have no need of repentance.”[23]
His love will never abandon us.
St. Augustine reminds us that the activity
of the Holy Spirit, who is love, is to unite and draw all into
abiding unity.[24]
Our Holy Father also says, “Love, in the full sense, can only be
present where something is enduring, where something abides.”[25]
What is love?
Now that we have mentioned love, one may
ask what is love, really? Authentic, genuine love is the
capacity of loving others to the extreme, as Jesus loved us, and
of giving myself away to others. This love is from God…and it
has its source in God. It is God’s love – loving in our own
heart.[26]
This point is key. He does it through us. To love someone
means to will good to someone. Primarily love is not a feeling,
but a decision. Love is also, in its essence, communion.[27]
1 Corinthians gives us this beautiful
definition to meditate on: “Love is patient, love is kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things.”[28]
In his letter St. Paul describes what love
is and isn’t. He describes love as patient. Love is other
centered versus self centered. He wrote this letter to the
Corinthians to deal primarily with the issue of factions and to
overcome the spirit of rivalry that was becoming evident in the
community.[29]
The passages of the letter leading up to St. Paul’s definition
of love focus on the need for unity and humility, and include
exhortations to build up the church, or the body of Christ,
primarily through love. We are to become one body in Christ,
especially when we receive Holy Communion, and to form one
single new man, which is Christ come to full stature.[30]
Love is manifested in the building up of community. Forgiveness
can help us do this, and is an important aspect of love. We
have the example of Christ - if Christ can forgive His enemies,
why shouldn’t we?
How do we move
our hearts from the I to the we?
Now having
looked more closely at the meaning of this love of the Holy
Spirit, we will now look at how we can move our hearts from self
preoccupation to a focus on the needs of others. The seven
steps I propose are: 1. know that God’s love fosters total
dependence and trust in Him to help us, 2. recognize the meaning
of God’s love, 3. realize that God desires to establish His
kingdom of love on earth through us, 4. recognize that we need
healing in order to love, and that God’s kingdom of love is one
of the healing of hearts, 5. look toward God’s kingdom of love
in heaven, 6. offer ourselves as living sacrifices of love, 7.
actively pursue the common good for love.
1. Know that
God’s Love Fosters Total Dependence and Trust in Him to Help Us
The first thing is dependence on God for
His help in everything, especially how to live as He calls us
to. We must have a total dependence on God, as a little child
has on their parents. For example, in the life of St. Therese
we see a total dependence on God. A good illustration of this
is that she tells Jesus that, in order to better love others,
she ‘would have to borrow His own love.’[31]
She doesn’t depend on herself or her merits. She is able to
recognize the love God has for her, and this is what primarily
motivated her love for others, as it says in the Scriptures:
“We love, because He first loved us.”[32]
She says, “without love, all works, even the most brilliant, are
as nothing.”[33]
She called this path of love for God and others the ‘little
way.’ The main penances St. Therese utilized was that of
mortifying self-love. For example, by holding back a reply, and
instead smiling at a sister who hurt her, etc.[34]
These seem like the best mortifications to me. This way
consists in accepting with love and serenity the suffering that
comes across our path. For instance, it makes no sense to
perform ‘huge’ mortifications which may be, for example, ‘I’m
going to fast all week,’ and then at the same time neglect
charity when the opportunity arises for its practice. It makes
no sense, because charity must take primary precedence and color
all of our deeds. Not that mortifications are wrong, but
charity should take priority, along with the acceptance of
crosses that come our way.
As a result of this total dependence on
God, St. Therese wanted to seek out a means of going to heaven
by a ‘little way,’ as she felt herself to be a ‘very little
soul.’[35]
She uses an analogy of an elevator, and says, “the elevator
which must raise me to heaven is your arms, O Jesus! And for
this I have no need to grow up.”[36]
She said she would appear before the good God empty handed of
her works, but fully trusting in His mercy for her.
2. Recognize
the Meaning of God’s Love
In order to move our hearts from the ‘I to
the we,’ it is vital that we recognize the meaning of God’s
love. For this, we need to get back to the heart of the message
of the Gospel – which itself means Good News. What is this
‘Good News,’ or Gospel? God sent His Son Jesus to save us -
nailing our sins to the cross. Why? So that we could live
forever in eternity. John 3:16 reads, “For God so loved the
world He sent His only Son, so that whoever believes in Him may
not perish but have eternal life.” Even in the Old Testament,
we see the prophets foretelling the resurrection of the dead.
The whole point of the Gospel and why it was written was so that
“you may have life in His name.”[37]
This is a cause for rejoicing.
In Revelations we read, “On each side of
the river {of the water of life} stood the tree of life . . .”[38]
The tree of life Revelations refers to is in reference to ‘the
tree of life’ with our first parents in the Garden of Eden in
Genesis chapter two. After the first sin when humanity
disobeyed God and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, Adam and Eve were thus were thrown out of paradise lest
humanity also eat from the ‘tree of life’ and therefore live
forever. When God sent His Son to save the world through His
death on ‘a tree -’ which is the wood of the cross – our sins
were nailed to it, and Jesus became our justification.
3. Realize
that God Desires to Establish His Kingdom of Love on Earth
Through Us
In the prayer of the ‘Our Father’ which
Jesus gave us, we pray “thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on
earth as it is in Heaven.”[39]
God wants to establish His kingdom here on earth, as in heaven.
God’s kingdom is truly present on earth whenever our will is
connected with the divine will. For instance, Jesus was always
focused on the Father and on accomplishing His Holy Will.
And what is this kingdom that we pray for
so earnestly? God’s Kingdom is a kingdom that is built
primarily in the heart. God’s Kingdom comes when we know and
follow the teachings of Jesus, building our lives on a firm
foundation. His kingdom is one of the healing of hearts and
souls. God wants to establish His Kingdom of healing, light and
peace here. Christ is our surest word about the Father, and
Christ healed all who came to Him.[40]
Jesus exhorted His disciples to “Proclaim the Kingdom of God.
Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers. Without cost
you have received, without cost you are to give.”[41]
4. Recognize
that we need Healing in order to Love, and that God’s Kingdom of
Love is one of the Healing of Hearts
Thus, it is important that we recognize
our need for healing in order to fully love. We should have
confidence that God, as powerful as He is, is who He says He is,
and that He is a God who desires to heal His people. We, His
children, can reach out to Him for everything – including our
healing. All we have to do is ask Him. “Ask and you shall
receive.”[42]
We depend totally on Him, with a focus on the greatness of His
love and His beauty. If we need help believing, we can say,
‘Lord, help me believe in your goodness.’ We need to have
confidence that He wants to fill us with Himself. The
Scriptures attest that His power at work in us can do far more
than we even ask or imagine.[43]
When there are healings, this gift touches
many people, not only the sick who recover, but also in a
special way the family, friends and others who hear of the
healing received.[44]
After all, as it is written in the psalms, “Our God is the God
who performs MIRACLES!”[45]
And He desires to heal through us His instruments, and
establish His kingdom on earth.
The healing that God desires to bring His
children is not only physical, but can also be spiritual. If we
are not spiritually healed, and we walk around without being at
peace and glum etc, we’re not living in the fullness of life
that God desires us to live. So, if we don’t have this joy or
peace, we can ask Him for it – by reaching out to Him: “People
came to be healed of their diseases . . . all in the crowd
sought to touch him because power came forth from Him and healed
them all.”[46]
He desires to give us this – as it says in Galatians 5:22: “the
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy and peace, patience,” and in
Romans, “for the kingdom of God … is righteousness, peace, and
joy in the holy spirit.”[47]
St. Paul encourages us to “Rejoice in the Lord always.”[48]
In my personal
experience, I think we need this joy and peace to help us be
more charitable to others. I recently had a little personal
‘enlightenment’ about this. When we are in a bad mood, for
example, sometimes we tend to take this out on others – being a
little more impatient, etc. After doing this one day I thought
about the fact that the other person doesn’t know why you are,
for example, not smiling at them, and they could interpret that
in many different ways. We shouldn’t assume that others know
the reason were upset when we haven’t told them, and that they
will know and understand why we’re being, for example, rude to
them, when in reality others don’t know the causes of our
actions.
If we think we’re unworthy, unlovable,
etc, this insecurity will be manifested in some way, or in some
disorder. As an example we could take jealousy. How do we
conquer this? What helps is learning to see things in the Light
of eternity. There will be no envy in heaven. I like this
quote from St. Anselm: “If anyone else whom you love as much as
yourself possessed the same blessedness, your joy would be
doubled because you would rejoice as much for him as for
yourself.”[49]
I like this line because it helps us focus on the good of the
other, and not ourselves.
The ultimate healing is the joy of heaven,
our salvation, as Jesus came to heal the ultimate wounds of
humanity: sin. When Jesus healed others on earth, it was a sign
– pointing to the Kingdom of Heaven and what it will be like
there. For example, Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from the dead,
died again.[50]
Those whom He healed on earth, eventually died. That is why the
Ultimate healing was the healing of the wounds of sin, which
will bring us to eternal life. Scripture says “if it is for
this life only we have hoped in Christ we are the most pitiable
people of all.”[51]
Many prayers
for good things like healing have not yet been answered – yet.
If our prayers aren’t answered here on earth for seemingly good
things such as healing, they will be answered in Heaven. The
Lord assured us that anything we ask according to His will He
hears us. As Christians we have the beautiful example of St.
Monica, who prayed for the conversion of her son for many
years. Sometimes things take time. Everything on earth we
experience is a preparation for heaven. God can even use our
mistakes to work for our ultimate good. Heaven will be the
answer to every prayer.
5. Look Toward
God’s Kingdom of Love in Heaven
I will thus
explore more in depth this Kingdom of heaven, in order both to
know the goal we are striving toward, and so we can know how we
can better bring the community of love in heaven to earth now.
Why? Heaven is not a distraction from earth but looking at
heaven teaching us precisely how we are to live.
In heaven, man enters into the glory of
Christ and into the joy of the Trinitarian life. The happiness
of Heaven consists essentially in the immediate vision of God,
being united to Him, and secondarily being united with His
creatures.[52]
The love of others is the qualification for entering heaven –
how we treated others and cared for them in this life. In the
judgment scene in Matthew 25, for instance, our final judgment
depended on how we served others, or not. After we die, our
souls go to heaven, and after the general judgment, our bodies
will be reunited with our souls in heaven. We will have
‘glorified bodies.’[53]
Heaven is the ultimate fulfillment of
communion with others. This love and unity with others begun on
earth will reach finally reach its completion. Knowledge
acquired during one’s life on earth is said to carry into glory,
and we will review our past life with divine understanding and
with God present with us.[54]
What is beautiful is that we also do the same for others lives.
In heaven all is revealed about everyone: “We will know others
more intimately and completely than we could know our most
intimate friend on earth because we share God’s knowledge of
each one.”[55]
Thus, to be in Heaven is to be among a
blessed community of believers. It is not just me and God, but
God and a whole community. It implies a unity and fellowship
with all who are in God’s love. As the society of the communion
of saints, there will be a closeness of love that knows no
limit.[56]
St. Therese speaks of heaven as being
‘peopled with souls who love me.’[57]
We will meet and be reunited with all those who have gone before
us and our lives have touched. For me, I am eagerly looking
forward to seeing those loved ones who have died: for example,
my grandparents, friends, family, etc. Nothing is ever truly
lost – as we will be reunited with our loved ones. We will
behold and be in communion with the Blessed Mother, as well as
all the saints. There will be the glorious martyrs, or
witnesses, in heaven that Revelations also speaks of, “who have
washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the
lamb.”[58]
In Heaven, the vows of the evangelical
counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience will also be
brought to fulfillment. For example, poverty – being poor in
spirit - the paradox of “having nothing, yet possessing all
things.”[59]
We will have Jesus as the treasure of our heart. Being
obedient is one of the deepest surrenders we can have to God –
and by this our heart will become a reflection of His heart and
desires. We are fully surrendered to God - and everyone lives
this way, doing His will, in Heaven. Our fourth vow as well
will be brought to fulfillment – that of Marian availability and
service in the heart of the Church – because there we will all
be in the fullness of His light and Truth.
Heaven is
essentially entering into Jesus’ Sacred Heart. In a very real
sense, Heaven is the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ. Thus, we can
be one with Him even beginning here on earth, especially in the
Holy Eucharist we receive and in prayer.
Overall, heaven
is really a great subject for our meditation, and a great
reminder of how we are to set our priorities and to love, by
keeping in mind the goal we are striving towards.
6. We Can
Offer Ourselves as Living Sacrifices of Love
To continue our journey of how to move our
hearts from the ‘I to the we,’ we can offer ourselves as living
sacrifices of love. How? Our Mother Foundress exhorts us, as
St. Paul says, “to offer ourselves as living sacrifices to God.”[60]
This is so our entire life - every area and action - will be
sacrificial. To be this “living sacrifice,” we are called to
live and be motivated only by love. In all of our actions,
conversations, ministries, relations, words, and works we are to
be living sacrifices of love. We should seek that which is most
noble, most pure and just, most charitable, service oriented,
most forgetful of self and seeking virtue as well as seeking the
last place.[61]
St. Maximillian Kolbe has said that the greater the sacrifice,
the greater love it proves.[62]
Our capacity to love is measured by our suffering and our
capacity of death to self. The “I” loses itself in order to
find truth and true life.[63]
The major obstacle to love is our flesh.
What is the flesh? It is the personal I - looking for my
desires, my thoughts, myself, my will. We are called to
sacrifice ourselves at every moment.[64]
We must put God’s Will and others above ourselves. Abraham was
willing to do whatever God required, including offer his only
son to Him – and by this he was showing great love for the
Lord. We should be willing to offer the most precious thing -
not our only son, like Abraham - but our hearts and wills to
God.
7. We Must
Actively Pursue the Common Good
We should learn how to yield our will to
the common good and yield to others.[65]
We should have a predisposition of heart to be forgetful of
self, and we must actively pursue the common good, unity, and
virtue.[66]
This last Pentecost of 2008, when the whole community was
gathered together in prayer, Mother asked that we pray that the
unity of the community be so strong that the Holy Spirit could
move with total freedom, so that we become truly one house. She
voiced her desire that her daughters be in one place together -
in unity of heart and mind: that we may think, understand, see
together. It is important that the whole community has perfect
unity in love, in charism, and with perfect obedience and
perfect functioning, in order to truly become one.[67]
As sisters in this congregation, the
search for the greater good should always become a rule of life
for us.[68]
Let us examine the steps given by our Mother Foundress on how to
seek the best good for others: 1). to surrender our pride in
order to choose love; 2). to demolish our own will before
destroying the gift of unity; 3). to maintain silence before the
wrong rather than hurting, in words or actions, the beauty of
the good; 4). to lose an argument in order to allow the triumph
of humility; 5.) to be ready for the biggest sacrifices so that
the Lord and the congregation can count on me; 6). to be willing
to go unnoticed and be hidden in virtue; 7.) to recognize with
humility your faults. We should strive to always choose the
perfection of love and the greatest possible good, which
requires a generous heart from us.[69]
It is possible. We have the beautiful example St. Maximilian
Kolbe – a martyr of sacrificial love to the extreme.
This aspect of
total self giving we also see perfectly in the life of St.
Therese. How was she able to do this, and with such
cheerfulness? The reason was because she was so in love with
God that nothing else really mattered. This was behind her
desire to be a martyr - all for the love of Him. This is how we
can rise above ourselves – by focusing on the Lord first,
especially in our prayer time.
Conclusion
To conclude, Pope John Paul II has spoken
frequently about the new springtime to come upon the Church and
the world, which will consist in a great outpouring of the Holy
Spirit, like a renewed Pentecost.[70]
Pope Benedict XVI has also been praying for this. However, we
must be prepared to receive the Holy Spirit anew.[71]
For Pentecost to be, the Marian and the Petrine principle must
both be present.[72]
We should have Marian and receptive hearts. As Siervas, we are
called to seriously dedicate ourselves to building, for God’s
glory and for others, a civilization of love and life here on
earth, empowered by the presence of the Holy Spirit.
I want to end with this quote that I like
from our dear Mother Foundress: “My main desire, as foundress,
is that you seek with seriousness holiness. Holiness is the
fruit of love, only of love. We want to be able to tell the
Lord on the day of our death: ‘I lived for love, and also my
sisters lived for this.’”[73]
APPENDIX
St. Anselm
writes, speaking of God: Let the knowledge of you
increase in me here, and there let it come to its fullness.
Let your love grow in me here, and there let it be
fulfilled, so that here my joy may be in a great hope, and
there in full reality.”
In the book
of Revelations chapters 21 and 22 give beautiful
descriptions of the life of the world to come in the
Heavenly city, the New Jerusalem:
“Then I
saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and
the first earth had passed away . . . I heard a loud voice
from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with
men, and he will live with them. They will be his people,
and God himself will be with them and be their God.
He will wipe every tear from their
eyes… And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain
great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God. It
shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like
that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as
crystal. It had a great, high wall
with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On
the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of
Israel. There were three gates on
the east, three on the north, three on the south and three
on the west. The wall of the city
had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the
twelve apostles of the Lamb. The
foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind
of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the
second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh
chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth
chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.
The twelve gates were twelve
pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great
street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass.
I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The
city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for
the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
The nations will walk by
its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their
splendor into it. On no day will
its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.”
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