Sunday, May 19 : Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus

The divine work of sanctification of the Church and of souls is attributed to the Holy Spirit because it is par excellence a work of love and the Holy Spirit is the inspiration of love of the Father and the Son. (…) The Holy Spirit descends on the apostles on the day of Pentecost, and takes possession of the soul as a temple on the day of baptism to carry out this work of the incarnation of divine life. We know the plan set for it, this eternal design of God which creates unity of the action of the Holy Spirit in the Church and in souls. “It is in Christ that God chose us from before the creation of the world and predestined us to be his adopted children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to bring forth the glory of grace that he has given us through his beloved Son. » (Eph 1,4-6) The action of the Holy Spirit is entirely oriented towards this effective realization of divine adoption in us and towards this expansion of Christ Jesus in our souls through the diffusion of his grace. The Spirit, in each soul and in the Church, builds the fullness of Christ, the total Christ who is the Church. In fact, the grace that he spreads in souls is a filial grace which closely relates us to the Word by making us sons by adoption as he himself is a son by nature. “You have received,” says the Apostle, “the spirit of adopted sons which makes us cry: Abba, Father. » (Rm 8,15) This grace which thus proclaims its name, gives us the likeness of the Word when we make it ours through this contemplation in which the Holy Spirit still intervenes. (…) The divine life in us is the life of Christ; it proceeds from Him and unites us to Him to constitute with Him a new reality, the entire vine, the total Christ made of Christ and his members.

Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar – rosary,team