The Holy Spirit

Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Jn 3:7B-15 “Nicodemus
April 30, 2019 | Tuesday

Today’s Gospel

Jesus said to Nicodemus:
“‘You must be born from above.’
The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it makes,
but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes;
so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Nicodemus answered and said to him,
‘How can this happen?”
Jesus answered and said to him,
“You are the teacher of Israel and you do not understand this?
Amen, amen, I say to you,
we speak of what we know and we testify to what we have seen,
but you people do not accept our testimony.
If I tell you about earthly things and you do not believe,
how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
No one has gone up to heaven
except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,
so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

Today’s Reflection

The Gospel discourse talks about the Holy Spirit in the imagery of wind. Because of their commonality of meaning, Jesus liked to compare the Holy Spirit to a kind of wind. The wind is unpredictable in its displacements, just as the Holy Spirit is entirely free to bring his gifts to whoever He wants. Some people, though no action of theirs, are born and raised in a thoroughly Christian environment and believe in God’s word as easily as they breathe – while others learn only harsh atheism from their environment. With the spirit, anything is possible – even our transformation into saints.

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