Sunday Evangelium - Totus2us

Fr Andrew: "My own suggestion of an answer to the question of why so few Christians experience the Holy Spirit is the following: the Holy Spirit is experienced mainly in divinely inspired action but very few Christians are willing to surrender to divinely inspired action. On the contrary we want to remain in complete control of our lives, not loving with God the things that God loves. Many of us, to a greater or lesser extent, are like the people that Jesus first encounters in the Gospels. We of course want God to help us and to heal us but mainly so that we can then get on with our lives in peace and prosperity. God will of course help us often in material ways but God wants us to go further than this. He wants us to surrender our whole lives over to Him, to really be able to say "Thy Will be done". This surrender is an entirely different matter from asking for gifts of any kind and it is something we tend to find very hard. This is I think why the coming of the Holy Spirit is the final revelation of the God