Whitsun Week. Marmion WORDS OF LIFE ON THE MARGIN OF THE MISSAL edit Thibaut

COMMENT:
Guest House Library restored to Nunraw Abbey.
Pentecost 24 May 2015. 
Br. Michel, white Novice,
received the monastic habit.

  

WORDS OF LIFE ON THE MARGIN OF THE MISSAL Hardcover – 1965

by D Columba (edited by Dom Thibaut) Marmion (Author)

In Whitsun Week

Whitsun Eve

Preparation tor Whitsun tide

Prayer to the Father and the Son from Whom
the Holy Ghost proceeds

LET us ask the Holy Ghost to enter into us and increase in us the abundance of His gifts. Fervent prayer is the condition of His indwelling in our souls. Humility is another condition. Let us come before Him with the intimate conviction of our inward poverty.

Despite our miseries, let us invoke Him; on account of these very miseries, He will hear us. Veni, Pater pauperum.·

And since He is one with the Father and the Son, let us say likewise to the Father:

Father, send down upon us, in the name of Thy Son Jesus, the Spirit of love that He may fill us with the intimate sense of our divine filiation. And Thou, 0 Jesus, our High Priest, now sitting at Thy Father's right hand, intercede for us, so that this mission of the Spirit, Whom Thou didst promise to us and didst merit for us, may be abundant; that it may be an impetuous river making glad the city of souls; or rather, according to Thine own words, "a fountain of water, springing up unto life everlasting." Hoc autern dicebat. de Spiritu Sancta quem accepturi erant credentes in eum.¹

Christ in His Mysteries, p. 340.
1 Cf. Communion of the Mass .

WHITSUNDAY

The Holy Spirit, Love and Life

THE Holy Spirit appears under the form of tongues of fire, because He fills the Apostles with truth and prepares them to bear testimony to Jesus. Also because He comes to fill their hearts with love.

He is personal Love in the life of God.

He is, as it were, the breath, the aspiration of the infinite love whence we draw life.

On the day of Pentecost, the Divine Spirit brought such an abundance of life to all the Church that to signify it " there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting."

In descending upon them, the Holy Spirit pours forth in them His love which is Himself. It was needful that the apostles should be filled with love in order that in preaching the name of Jesus they should give birth to the love of their Master in the souls of the hearers; it was necessary that their testimony, dictated by the Spirit, should be so full of life as to attach the world to Jesus Christ.

This love, ardent as a flame, powerful as a tempestuous wind, is necessary to the Apostles in order that they may be able to meet the dangers foretold by Christ when they shall have to preach His Name.

Christ in His Mysteries, p. 332.