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“The hour of the Spirit has come on the day of Pentecost.” In this way, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, archbishop of Havana reminds us this Sunday, May 23, that the Holy Spirit has also been given to us, we have received it in baptism and it has been confirmed in us in the sacrament. of Confirmation. It is transforming us in a progressive interior way, to such an extent that we can say: “I live, but not I, it is Christ who lives in me.” He recalled that the Holy Spirit comes every day on the Church and people of good will. We count on his inspiration and his gifts, let us be guided by him. The Holy Spirit, creator of God’s works, is the teacher of prayer and he is the one who reveals to us the meaning of the Bible that he himself inspired.

God the Father, through Jesus Christ his beloved Son, wants to renew his Spirit in each one of us at this new Pentecost. In this particular moment of widespread suffering due to the pandemic, of overwhelm and despair due to the consequences of it in broken families, who have lost loved ones, who continue to suffer from the disease, who have lost work and goods necessary for their subsistence, we repeat insistently : Come, Holy Spirit! Let us prepare our hearts to receive it, let us wait for it with faith and trust, let us receive it with joy and enthusiasm. Let us ask God for it: Send, Lord, your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth! Give us, Lord, your Holy Spirit.

In his address, corresponding to this Sunday, May 16, celebration of the Ascension and ascent to heaven of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana, reminds us that each one of us, followers of Christ , we have been asked to go and preach the Gospel. It is not about going far, Jesus asks us to go to those we love, to go to those around us: “Go to our children, grandchildren, relatives, friends and tell them about Jesus Christ, about his teachings … Tell them what that we have lived, felt and experienced in the Church, in prayer, in Mass. In our teaching and preaching we will find difficulties, rejection, indifference, mockery… But the promised Holy Spirit will fill us with strength and perseverance. And we hope one day, after having lived like Christ, to be with Him in the house of heaven together with all our family and friends ”.

Near the end of Easter season, we celebrate the solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord into heaven. Once again, Jesus surprises his Apostles with an unusual, unexpected event, but loaded with meaning for them. As on so many occasions, they are overcome by what is happening and will have to assimilate it little by little, with the help of the Holy Spirit. That happened? Attested by the Gospels and by the book of the Acts of the Apostles, we are told that Jesus, after having risen from the dead, after having appeared on different occasions and circumstances to the closest group of disciples, one day brought them together again and, saying goodbye to them, he ascended to the heavens until he disappeared from their sight.