Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2016

embody the Spirit of God

For the liturgical year EASTER is high point - we celebrate the most important EVENT 
in Christian Life: the Resurrection. We are convinced the life of JvN ist the most outstanding INCARNATION - EMBODYMENT of the Spirit of God. We know: 
as a human Incarnation HE has to die - but the cross is in every case a shock. 
And then the great question: where is his body ???  remember Maria of Magdala ! 
his inexplicable appearances for many ? he is somehow recognized (Emmaus / Beach)  - but finally he has totally disappeared (named Ascension).
At this moment - why the story of Jesus Christ is not ending? The famous answer:
Because the Holy God has decided to give us his Spirit, the fullness of Life.
Therefore: WHO is open to accept this gift and to incorporate (to embody, to impersonate,

to incarnate) the Spirit of God into his own life-style? It`s very good for us, it`s  joy, to see, 
to experience people living the Spirit of God.
On Pentecost we celebrate the fact: The Spirit of God is poured out. The one who believes in the Holy Spirit (cf. Creed) is convinced the Spirit of God is not jailed in Heaven but poured out and therefore the one who believes will never more sing: "come Holy Spirit come".
It`s one of the famous contradiction of the practical Catholic Life: "to believe in the Holy Spirit" + to sing: "Come Holy Spirit come". 
Everyone who waits for the Holy Spirit is a witness of: the Holy Spirit didn`t come yet. 
As we wait and pray to get the Holy Spirit - we are totally wrong - the whole Bible (Genesis etc... until Mary of Nazareth and until the Apostles) and the Creed and the History and all the Holy-Ones proclaim: The Holy Spirit is poured out. 
Everybody knows God is a "GIVING GIFT". He has given his Spirit, his Creation, his Son - he has given all and Himself - nothing less - and there is nothing more HE can give us.
The only problem: there are some people unable to accept the "giving Gift"; they are not open but closed. We have in the Church the ever-waiting (praying) people and the people who try to live the Spirit of God.
The celebration of Pentecost is an INVITATION to make a clear decision again:
I wait or I try! I open or I close! I enjoy the Gift or I look after! 
Please discover: it`s a fact: You got body + mind + soul... here in is incarnated the Spirit of God and it`s up to you to embody, to live this wonderful Spirit of God. 

I wish for all a refreshing May-Holiday

 

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