All people receive gifts from the Holy Spirit; gifts that help us to live as the children of God; gifts that enable us to be instruments of God’s love and grace to people in our world.
We are a sacramental Church, opening ourselves up to the creative grace of God, our loving Father, to the compassionate and loving grace of Jesus Christ, to the transforming grace of the Holy Spirit. In the Sacrament of Confirmation, we receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit, described in our first reading from the prophet Isaiah: wisdom and understanding, counsel and strength, holiness, and knowledge and fear of the LORD.
If we are genuinely open to the Spirit, to God’s love and grace, then we will be transformed by these gifts, and, of course, real transformation means that we must use these gifts for our good and for the good of all people.
This Advent season calls us to slow down and consider how we have been gifted by the Holy Spirit and how we are called to use these gifts.
But we can’t stop there; we must always work to actually use them, that God’s love and peace may flow through us, that we may fulfill our vocation to bring ourselves and others to God’s kingdom of love.
And so, we pray...
Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.
O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations. Through Christ Our LORD. Amen. +
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