Pentecost's Readings Reflection – Year C
Acts 2: 1-11; 1Cor 1: 3-7, 12-13; Jn20: 19-23
"To be mysteriously Fruitful"
Evangelii Gaudium # 280
When Pentecost day came…. As this Pentecost celebration arrives, let us ask ourselves: how will the Spirit find us today? Enclosed in the room of fear like the disciples? Disappointed for not seeing the striking results we were expecting? Struggling to understand and to be understood like the people assembled in Jerusalem? Restless in search of that peace that the world cannot give us? Trying to remain impassioned with Jesus' mission? Let us recall what Pope Francis considers the secret of every missionary endeavour: "Keeping our missionary fervor alive calls for firm TRUST in the Holy Spirit, for it is he who "helps us in our weakness" (Rom 8:26). But this generous trust has to be nourished and so we need to invoke the Spirit constantly. He can heal whatever causes us to flag in our missionary endeavour.
This Pentecost let us entrust generously ourselves once again to the Spirit of God. Let us allow him to come anew into our lives. Let us nourish our personal relationship with the One who knows how to lead us in a mysterious but fruitful way. Let us TRUST in Him! This is the secret!
They were all amazed and astonished….How does it happen…? We continue quoting Pope Francis while he describes the experience of being led by the Spirit: "It is true that this trust in the unseen can cause us to feel disoriented: it is like being plunged into the deep and not knowing what we will find… YET, there is no greater freedom than that of allowing oneself to be guided by the Holy Spirit, renouncing to the attempt to plan and control everything to the last detail, and instead letting him enlighten, guide and direct us, leading us wherever he wills.
Letting go our securities, disoriented before the newness, amazement, surprise, freedom….all these happen when we trust and allow the Spirit to do in and through us. Yes, He makes us mysteriously fruitful!
Nobody is able to…., except in the Holy Spirit. "The Holy Spirit knows well what is needed in every time and place. This is what it means to be mysteriously fruitful.
With this assurance and inner certainty we move freely, fearless wherever the Spirit wishes to lead us. Sharing the many different gifts and through many different ways of serving but always in the same Spirit!
Peace be with you! Receive the Holy Spirit!
Empowered by the Spirit we are able to go forth from ourselves and turned ourselves into courageous sharers of the Gospel in every time and place. In this very special moment in South Sudan, let us remember the definitive, deepest and greatest motivation, the ultimate reason and meaning behind all we do: the glory of the Father which Jesus sought at every moment of his life, the glory of the Father who loves us.
As the Father sent me, I'm sending you! In the Spirit we can do it, we become MISTERIOUSLY FRUITFUL!
Sr. Nancy Noguera, Missionary Sister Servant of the Holy Spirit (SSpS)
Catholic Diocese of Yei, South Sudan.
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