Let’s ask ourselves: are we open to the Holy Spirit, do I pray to him to enlighten me, to make me more sensitive to the things of God? And this is a prayer we need to pray every day, every day: Holy Spirit may my heart be open to the Word of God, may my heart be open to good, may my heart be open to the beauty of God, every day. Dogmatic Constitution, “Lumen gentium”, 12). The Tradition of the Church affirms that the Spirit of truth acts in our hearts, provoking that “sense of faith” (sensus fidei), through which, as the Second Vatican Council affirms, the People of God, under the guidance of the Magisterium, adheres unwaveringly to the faith given once and for all to the saints, (113) penetrates it more deeply with right thinking, and applies it more fully in its life (cf. If God does not enlightens us interiorly, our being Christians will be superficial.
We cannot achieve this on our own strengths. The Holy Spirit, then, as Jesus promises, guides us “into all truth” (Jn 16:13) he leads us not only to an encounter with Jesus, the fullness of Truth, but guides us “into” the Truth, that is, he helps us enter into a deeper communion with Jesus himself, gifting us knowledge of the things of God. Indeed, our actions are born from deep within: it is the heart that needs to be converted to God, and the Holy Spirit transforms it if we open ourselves to Him …I will put my spirit within you so that you walk in my statutes, observe my ordinances, and keep them”(36:25-27). I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. Ezekiel’s great prophecy is realized: “I will sprinkle clean water over you to make you clean from all your impurities and from all your idols I will cleanse you. What is then the action of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in the life of the Church to guide us to the truth? First of all, remind and imprint on the hearts of believers the words that Jesus said, and precisely through these words, God’s law – as the prophets of the Old Testament had announced – is inscribed in our hearts and becomes within us a principle of evaluation in our choices and of guidance in our daily actions, it becomes a principle of life. Jesus calls him the “Paraclete”, meaning “the one who comes to our aid,” who is by our side to support us in this journey of knowledge, and at the Last Supper, Jesus assures his disciples that the Holy Spirit will teach them all things, reminding them of his words (cf. It is the Holy Spirit, the gift of the Risen Christ, that helps us recognize the Truth.
Paul teaches that “no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the holy Spirit” (1 Cor 12:3). It is not a possession, is an encounter with a Person.īut who helps us recognize that Jesus is “the” Word of truth, the only begotten Son of God the Father? St. You cannot grab the truth as if it were an object, you encounter it. Pilate does not understand that “the” Truth is in front of him, he cannot see in Jesus the face of the truth, which is the face of God yet, Jesus is just that: the Truth, which, in the fullness of time, “became flesh” (Jn 1,1.14), came among us so that we may know it. Here I am reminded of the question of the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate when Jesus reveals the profound meaning of his mission: “What is truth?” (Jn 18,37.38). The question arises: does “the” truth really exist? What is “the” truth? Can we know it? Can we find it? Benedict XVI has spoken many times of relativism, that is, the tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. We live in an age rather skeptical of truth. Jesus says to his disciples: the Holy Spirit, “he will guide you to all truth” (Jn 16:13), he himself being “the Spirit of truth” (cf.
Below is a Vatican Radio translation of the Holy Father’s general audience catechesis Wednesday May 15, 2013:ĭear brothers and sisters, good day! Today I want to focus on the action that the Holy Spirit accomplishes in guiding the Church and each one of us to the Truth.
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