The Holy Spirit

Happy Feast of Pentecost! Today Bishop John joined us to celebrate this great feast that completes that Paschal Mystery! The Holy Spirit is an incredible gift that allows us to have God living within us. He is "everywhere present and filling all things," as we pray in the "Heavenly King" prayer. Below is a poem that was written by one of the nuns. Each stanza refers to one of the four classical elements of the world: earth, wind, water and fire.

The Holy Spirit

From the barren earth life was made to sprout

as You hovered over the waters, ready to nest.

Man was made of the dust of the earth and Your breath.

“His glorious rest is not enough,” we heard. “Take for yourself and eat.”

Blow!—that what is defiled may be swept clean and filled

and the fragrance of its perfumes may fill this house.

From the mountain Your rivers flow to the depths of Man.

A bubbling fountain leaps up somewhere in his darkness

where deep cries to deep at Your thunder.

“Remove your sandals on this Holy Ground.”

What will become of me if I consume this burning coal?

Yet where in all existence shall I flee from Your Spirit?