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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. This is day six of our novena in preparation for the feast of Pentecost.

Well, what happened at Pentecost?

Through the power of the Holy Spirit and the prayer of Mary, Jesus was born in the souls of the disciples,

and that's why they gathered around Mary in the upper room before Pentecost,

because Jesus is always born according to the same pattern and plan of God.

The Holy Spirit and Mary form Jesus in her womb, the Holy Spirit and Mary form Jesus in the souls of the disciples

at Pentecost, and likewise the Holy Spirit and Mary will form Jesus in you.

Therefore in our preparation for Pentecost,

we gather around Mary,

and we try to become as close to her as possible so that the Holy Spirit may form Jesus within us.

Because the more we turn to Mary, the more we are actually turning to the Holy Spirit because Mary is the

perfect human expression of the Spirit. She is the sacrament of the spirit.

Now recall from our last meditation

that a sacrament is a sign that signifies

and makes present the grace proper to it.

Well, Mary signifies and makes the Holy Spirit present to us

so that the Spirit may form Jesus within us.

I asked Father Gregor Bartisik, the greatest living scholar on the theology of St. Maximilian Colby,

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