Mother Angelica's writings on the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Today I notice a lot of people have lost hope. They've lost hope in government, in their leaders, in their churches. We are getting to the place where the first Christians were, a state of despair. I think we have a magnificent opportunity of participating in the coming of the Spirit in the same way the first Christians did. In the last supper discourse (John 16) Our Dear Lord said, "The Advocate, the Holy spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything." You see, the coming of the Spirit was the very reason Jesus Himself came. he came to redeem you -- and redemption is not just going to Heaven, it means a complete change in our life, so that you become something you were not. It is the work of the Spirit to transform you into the image of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The Lord did not take the first Christians out of their surroundings, He left them where they were and gave them a power to rise above themselves. You have that same power.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. John 16: 13
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