On the Apostle's birth, from the church we cry a simple word, at least a word of welcome or of calm to those who may have today to celebrate this feast with us, especially our hombres, my admirer and from Francisca, requires a word because the Holy Spirit gives the word to us today. So whatever is said is, as it were, a little offering of thanksgiving to the grace and mercy of our Heavenly Father, who today has sealed the work of His time. He repented. He descended from heaven. He did not think it a wrong way to be equal to God.

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He wanted to be one of us. He wanted that we should have a high priest of our salvation. One who knows what is in man. One who was tempted like man. One who had gone to the struggles through which every man has to go. One who took upon himself the burden and the punishment of our sin. And that is death, pain of the body, and anguish of soul. For all these things He had to become man, and as man then He had to die. The Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. And so we have lost Him, He has left us.

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But there is then the great difference again between our faith, between the difference and every father has given to us from all the various thoughts, ideas, and religions that the Lord and the Divine have produced. The Lord has left us according to His human appearance, His being, body, But He has sent us this Spirit, so that the one who became man for us, and to that point died and had to leave us, gives us, cometh and goeth, the most precious gift of our living.

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This Holy Spirit, this gift that He sends to us today is God, so that the whole work of redemption ends in our becoming God. Because this one flame of the Holy Spirit He sends upon everyone. upon every member of the Church, upon all those who are His disciples, who believe in Him, who have dined with Him on Easter. And today He comes to us, the Holy Spirit, God, the third divine person, the Father of the poor, the One who gives Himself to us, because we realize that we as human beings are poor.

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When we celebrate today the Feast of Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Spirit, the gift of the Third Person, of divinity to us human beings, one condition is required for us, that we may realize our poverty, that we may stand before him as beggars, and then he can fulfill his other glorious name that he invoked during this sequence, and that is giver of gifts. The One, the Divinity, who is a giver, told to me a giver and told to me a gift, needs, as it were, beggars to receive.

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Who could receive a gift who thinks that He possesses and has everything. Let us then, again, go back to that moment where we stood with Christ under the cross as beggars. And let us renew in ourselves that constant readiness that the Christians of old called That change of mind, that change of mind that consists in this, that we, and that is another key word of Christianity, that we deny ourselves. To deny oneself means to take a position against oneself. To judge against oneself, that is to deny oneself.

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Denying oneself does not mean that one gives up the middle of this, or gives up the middle of that, or does not do what one would like to do, take a trip here or eat at this place that's a little more expensive, and then one denies oneself. That's not the meaning. To deny oneself means to stand up against oneself as a judge, and to take position and sentence against oneself. That is our currently condition under which then we can receive the gift, that gift of divinity.

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The gift of divinity is divided for us poor human beings into an infinite number. Remember the gift of faith. the gift of charity, the gift of hope, the fact that you can be here in this chapel and worship God as a Father, the gift of piety, the gift of devotion in your heart, all these gifts are the gifts of the Holy Spirit. various manifestations of the Divine Spirit in you, that you would give us gifts and light of the heart, light of the heart, all the gifts that are given to us by the Holy Spirit.

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carry in them, as it were, because He is God, carry in them the splendor and the dignity of divinity. And once again, He becomes totally honest, so that He takes His abode in what we call that brings the inner center of our personality. Nevertheless, that that lives in us again is enlightened. Enlightened because it is really divine glory. Our Holy Father St. Benedict points that out so beautifully. in the seventy-second chapter of this holy book, where he speaks about the good seed that the brethren should have and cultivate towards one another.

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First he speaks against presumption and against all those things which make us, as the inner and prevent us from being beggars. He wants the monk to be a beggar in the spiritual sense. He wants the monk as one who is always ready to change himself according to God's Word. That change of the heart, that inner readiness to conquer, But then he tells about the good seer. And good seer feels as it were this emptiness, this void of others. And that good seer which works in a way that the brethren really meet one another in charity

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How is that true? He says, they should die with one another in giving honour to one another. And that is really, I would say, the essence of that divine power which he sends today upon us. This divine fire illumines our heart in that way that it shows to us our heavenly Father as the One who has adopted us to whom we are children, incorporated into His Son. and in relation to one another rather.

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For just as our relation to the Father is not one of a cheap funding gamble, but it is one of deepest inner reference. So also there is the bond that binds us to our brethren is one which is illuminated by the glory of the One to whom we are bound in this paternal charity. So let us rejoice in this Divine Spirit, and let us realize that this fire which enters into the intimacy of our hearts at the same time opens to us the whole glory of divinity in heaven and on earth, in our relation to our Heavenly Father, in our relation to one another, that in all things God may be glory, and may be constantly

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Bide with one another in the honour of one another. May the Lord be with you.

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