Fr. Jorge Miró shares with Exaudi readers his commentary on the Gospel of this Sunday, June 8, 2025, entitled “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

***

Today we celebrate the day of Pentecost. The Paschal Mystery culminates with the sending of the Holy Spirit upon the Virgin Mary and the Apostles. On the day of Pentecost, Christ’s Passover is consummated with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit (cf. Catechism, 731).

Pentecost reminds us that everything is a gift, everything is grace. It reminds us that we do not give life to ourselves. Only God can open our graves and raise us from them. Only his Spirit can revive us, renew us.

The Word we hear speaks to us of what happens when man insists on being self-sufficient and wants to steal God’s glory: Babel arrives, confusion, division, and the impossibility of communion.

But it also reminds us that God loves us, that He is faithful and keeps His promises, that we are the people God chose as His inheritance. And for this reason, God does not abandon us and sends us prophets who call us to conversion, so that we can say: we will do everything the Lord has said. And even more: He gives us the Holy Spirit, who accomplishes in us the work of the new creation.

And then, when we open ourselves to His action, we can live in blessing and praise. We can live in hope. Because we no longer live in our own strength or in our own calculations, but we experience how the Spirit comes to us in our weakness and intercedes for us with inexpressible groans.

We experience that we no longer live lost or disoriented, like existential “wanderers,” wandering aimlessly toward nowhere, because we possess the first fruits of the Spirit who reveals to us our deepest identity: we are beloved children of God.

And this Spirit leads us to confess that Jesus is Lord, that Jesus Christ lives and is with us every day. It leads us to proclaim Him Lord of our lives, to let Him lead them wherever He wants to lead them.

And this same Spirit leads us into the Body of Christ, into the Church. Because He is the Spirit of communion. And He gives us charisms and ministries to proclaim the good news of the Gospel, to announce that the Kingdom of God has arrived, to build up the Church, for the common good. You cannot keep these charisms to yourself: they are not yours. You have received them to bear fruit for others. God awakens these charisms, so that they rekindle in our hearts the desire to encounter Christ, the thirst for the divine life He offers us—in a word, grace! (cf. Leo, June 6, 2025).

Crowned by the twelve fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace… (cf. Gal 5), signs that the “control” of your life is in the hands of the Lord, signs that you allow the Holy Spirit to act in your life.

And also to be priests, prophets, and kings. Priests, intercessors for our brothers and sisters. Prophets, because our lives become a sign of God’s love for others. Prophets of goodness, truth, and beauty. Kings proclaiming that Jesus Christ is Lord, Lord of history, and therefore living in hope, and with the confidence that nothing and no one can separate us from the love of God; with the confidence that for God nothing is impossible; with the certainty that God never ceases to love us, and with the certainty that every day he pours out the Holy Spirit, who renews the face of the earth. Creative Spirit, Consoling Spirit, Sanctifying Spirit… who makes all things new.

Come Holy Spirit!