O God, who on this day taught the hearts of your faithful people by sending to them the light of your Holy Spirit: Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Today, you are sealed by the Holy Spirit and marked as
Christ's own for ever. Amen.
Commentary:
The Spirit, however, does not accomplish His work in us if we remain completely passive and inert. If we are to enter fully into the mystery of his supernatural union in Christ, we must respond to God's gift of grace and consent to live as a child of God. Such consent must be elicited by our own free will ..... If we would live like sons of God, we must reproduce in our own lives the life and charity of His only begotten Son (Thomas Merton). It is the exercise of this new freedom as children of God that makes us capable of achieving our true likeness to God. And what is required of us to exercise this freedom in our life is an openness to the Spirit in faith and in love.
John J. Higgins SJ, Merton's Theology of Prayer
* italics, mine
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