Our Lady of Lourdes February 3: the Holy Spirit lives in us in Mary

The Revelation of God's plan of salvation for humanity found full fulfillment with the coming of Jesus, with his Death and Resurrection. His Words of Life have revealed to us what the Father has in his heart and the way to reach it.

But on this foundation we still need explanations, insights, to read more deeply what the Lord wants to tell us. Often how superficial we are in reading Holy Scripture! But even if we put all our capacities of mind and heart to welcome it, we would never be able to penetrate it fully due to our human limitations. So here is a promise: "The Holy Spirit will guide you to all truth" (Jn 16, 12 13). We are thus witnessing, in the life of the Church, a gradual development of dogmas, a greater sensitivity and a greater response to the needs of God, as well as an ever more conscious and heartfelt Marian devotion.

This devotion, then, is always again aroused and sustained by the direct action of Mary who comes to meet her children, to speak, to explain, to bring attention back to the fundamental themes of faith, appearing generally to children, to young people. , in which he more easily finds the simplicity and Docility of the little ones of the Gospel.

“The salvation of the world began through Mary; through Mary he must also have his fulfillment. In the first coming of Jesus, Mary hardly appears. Men were not yet sufficiently educated and enlightened about the person of Jesus and would be in danger of straying from the truth with too strong and too gross an attachment to her. Because of the wonderful charm bestowed upon it by God on the outside as well, this would probably have happened. Saint Dionysius the Aeropagita observes that if he had not been well founded on faith, upon seeing her he would have mistaken Mary for a deity due to her splendid and fascinating beauty. In the second coming of Jesus, however (the one we are now waiting for), Mary will be known, she will be revealed by the Holy Spirit in order to make Jesus known, loved and served through her. The Holy Spirit will no longer have reason to hide it, as during his life and after the first evangelization ”(Treatise VD 1). So let us also follow this divine plan and prepare ourselves to be "all his" to be all of God, for our good and for the greater glory of the Father.

Commitment: Let us recite the Sequence to the Holy Spirit with faith, so that the Spirit reveals to us the greatness, beauty and preciousness of our Heavenly Mother.

Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.