Little by little we are learning to live without interiority. We no longer need to be in touch with the best that is within us. It is enough for us to live entertained. We are content to function without a soul and feed only on bread. We do not want to expose ourselves to seek the truth Come Holy Spirit and free us from the inner emptiness!

We already know how to live without roots and without goals. It is enough for us to allow ourselves to be programmed from the outside. We move and shake incessantly, but we do not know what we want or where we are going. We are getting better informed, but we feel more lost than ever. Come Holy Spirit and free us from disorientation!

We are hardly interested in the great questions of existence. We are not worried about running out of light to face life. We have become more skeptical but also more fragile and insecure. We want to be smart and lucid. Why can’t we find calm and peace? Why does sadness visit us so much? Come Holy Spirit and free us from the darkness within!

We want to live longer, live better, live longer, but live what? We want to feel good, feel better, but feel what? We seek to enjoy life intensely, to get the most out of it, but we are not content with just having fun. We do what we want. There are hardly any prohibitions or forbidden areas. Why do we want something different? Come Holy Spirit and teach us to live!

We want to be free and independent, and we find ourselves more and more alone. We need to live and we lock ourselves in our little world, sometimes so boring. We need to feel loved and we do not know how to create lively and friendly contacts. We call sex «love» and pleasure «happiness», but who will quench our thirst? Come Holy Spirit and teach us to love!

In our life there is no longer room for God. His presence has been repressed or atrophied within us. Full of noises inside, we can no longer hear his voice. Poured into a thousand desires and sensations, we fail to perceive his closeness. We know how to talk to everyone except him. We have learned to live with our backs to the Mystery Come Holy Spirit and teach us to believe!

Believers and non-believers, little believers and bad believers, this is how we pilgrimage on this path of life. Today, the great feast of the Holy Spirit, Jesus tells us all what one day he said to his disciples, exhaling his breath on them: «Receive the Holy Spirit.» That Spirit who sustains our poor lives and encourages our weak faith can penetrate us in ways known only to him. That we know how to be open, receptive, in love • AE

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Fr. Agustin’s Schedule for the Solemnity of Pentecost of 2021

Saturday, May 22, 2021

3.00 p.m. Sacrament of Baptism for Magdalene Hoover @ St. Peter Prince of the Apostles

4.30 p.m. Sacrament of Reconciliation @ St. Peter Prince of the Apostles

5. 30 p.m. Mass @ St. Peter Prince of the Apostles

Sunday, May 23, 2021

9.00 a.m. Mass @ St. Peter Prince of the Apostles

11.00 a.m. Mass @ St. Peter Prince of the Apostles

5. 30 p.m. Mass @ St. Peter Prince of the Apostles

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Solemnidad de Pentecostes (2021)

Ven Espíritu Santo. Despierta nuestra fe débil, pequeña y vacilante. Enséñanos a vivir confiando en el amor insondable de Dios nuestro Padre a todos sus hijos e hijas, estén dentro o fuera de tu Iglesia. Si se apaga esta fe en nuestros corazones, pronto morirá también en nuestras comunidades e iglesias.

Ven Espíritu Santo. Haz que Jesús ocupe el centro de tu Iglesia. Que nada ni nadie lo suplante ni oscurezca. No vivas entre nosotros sin atraernos hacia su Evangelio y sin convertirnos a su seguimiento. Que no huyamos de su Palabra, ni nos desviemos de su mandato del amor. Que no se pierda en el mundo su memoria.

Ven Espíritu Santo. Abre nuestros oídos para escuchar tus llamadas, las que nos llegan hoy, desde los interrogantes, sufrimientos, conflictos y contradicciones de los hombres y mujeres de nuestros días. Haznos vivir abiertos a tu poder para engendrar la fe nueva que necesita esta sociedad nueva. Que, en tu Iglesia, vivamos más atentos a lo que nace que a lo que muere, con el corazón sostenido por la esperanza y no minado por la nostalgia.

Ven Espíritu Santo y purifica el corazón de tu Iglesia. Pon verdad entre nosotros. Enséñanos a reconocer nuestros pecados y limitaciones. Recuérdanos que somos como todos: frágiles, mediocres y pecadores. Libéranos de nuestra arrogancia y falsa seguridad. Haz que aprendamos a caminar entre los hombres con más verdad y humildad.

Ven Espíritu Santo. Enséñanos a mirar de manera nueva la vida, el mundo y, sobre todo, a las personas. Que aprendamos a mirar como Jesús miraba a los que sufren, los que lloran, los que caen, los que viven solos y olvidados. Si cambia nuestra mirada, cambiará también el corazón y el rostro de tu Iglesia. Los discípulos de Jesús irradiaremos mejor su cercanía, su comprensión y solidaridad hacia los más necesitados. Nos pareceremos más a nuestro Maestro y Señor.

Ven Espíritu Santo. Haz de nosotros una Iglesia de puertas abiertas, corazón compasivo y esperanza contagiosa. Que nada ni nadie nos distraiga o desvíe del proyecto de Jesús: hacer un mundo más justo y digno, más amable y dichoso, abriendo caminos al reino de Dios • AE

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