SUNDAY GOSPEL REFLECTION 

from Vatican Radio

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The Holy Spirit respects our freedom. We are not puppets in his hands. He wishes us to enter into a personal relationship and adhere to him in the depths of our being. Jesus tells us that the Spirit takes up residence in us. The deepest part of us - our hearts - becomes his temple. And if someone is living with you on this deep level, then you acquire his habits. But what are these habits? Do we start doing extraordinary things? No. We start to do the ordinary things in an extraordinary way. And he guides the development of our minds and hearts so that we have a natural love for what is good, clean and simple. By contrast, those who do not have intimacy with the Spirit, have a fascination for what is ambiguous, scandalous and perverse. With Pentecost begins the epoch of the Church, an epoch in which men and women allow the Holy Spirit to operate through them. The Church is not a collection of extraordinary or super-talented people, but ordinary people who have been visited by the extraordinary love of God and who, by their actions, express the love that they have experienced.