May 29 Mon
The Lord has “opened to all humanity, without exception, the possibility of a new life, of being reborn in the Spirit, of beginning to live as conquerors who can exclaim: If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not give us all things with him?...”

With the sacraments, we receive the Holy Spirit, who gives us a new heart, makes us a new creature with new effectiveness: namely, the possibility of reaching sanctity and helping others attain it as well.

The Holy Spirit's action requires our intelligent, free cooperation, since God does not force our will, but moves it in such a way that we remain free at all times.

We need to grow, to prepare to receive the Holy Spirit more fully and abundantly. St Josemaría wrote: “The Holy Spirit - God with you - is giving a supernatural tone to all your thoughts, desires, and actions.”
We are instruments of the Holy Spirit. “When God wishes to carry out an enterprise, he uses totally inadequate means so that all may see that the work is his. Hence you and I, who know well the great weight of our own limitations, should say to God: ‘Although I see my own wretchedness, I realize that in your hands I become a divine instrument.’”

“And so, we can apply to ourselves the question asked by the Apostle: Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? And we can understand it as an invitation to talk with God in a more personal and direct manner. For some, unfortunately, the Paraclete is the Great Stranger, the Great Unknown. He is merely a name that is mentioned, but not Someone, not one of the three Persons in the one God, with whom we can talk and whose life we can live.”