Where are we at? A «I believe in the Holy Spirit». To summarize: God before us in eternity is the Father. God with us (Emanuel) in history, who after having lived our life in his, suffered our death and anticipated in the Resurrection what is promised and given to us in eternal life went to prepare for us a place "where He too is" (Jn. 14,3) is the Son, eternal Word and Jesus of Nazareth, also son of Mary, also our mother. The Spirit was still missing…

But the Spirit not only "is Lord", but also "gives life". It already in the prefiguration of the First Testament "hovered over the waters" of the initial chaos and was "ruàh", the vital breath of every living creature, but in the fullness of the Revelation which is a gift from God himself over the centuries, evoked for. example at the beginning of the Letter to the Hebrews, there is the definitive mysterious donation of this Spirit himself, total creator and animator. It appears as the presence of God who fertilizes Mary's womb and who then, once the Gospels tell us everything, is given by Jesus himself as an "advocate" and "consoler", that is, He who ensures that we do not we are never alone. Jesus promised it to those poor people, bewildered sinners, amazed at his story and the events that after that "Supper", the last one, they had turbulently followed in 43 days, until the moment their eyes saw him. vanish while a voice from above exhorted them not to "stare looking at the sky", but to go towards the world, towards their brothers...

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