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Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today is day four of our novena in preparation for Pentecost.

Now yesterday we said some bold things.

We said that Mary is the perfect human expression of the

Holy Spirit and that she is the sacrament of the Holy Spirit. Well, what do we mean by this and why is it relevant to our spiritual life?

Well, first we have to make it clear. The Holy Spirit is not a woman. The Holy Spirit is not a woman because God is neither man nor woman.

However, we can attribute specific characteristics to the mission of the son and the mission of the spirit.

We know that the son became man in Jesus Christ.

Likewise, we can attribute certain characteristics to the

mission of the Holy Spirit. In fact, St. John Paul the, in his letter, Redemptoris Matter, says that the Holy Spirit

fulfills a mission of maternal mediation to conceive and form Jesus first in Mary and then in us.

So there is a real feminine and maternal quality to the mission of the Holy Spirit.

Our Father who art in heaven, Hallow would be your name, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation

but deliver us from evil, Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women, blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God, brave for us sinners now and at the hour of our death,

Amen.

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