Many times in these modern times the admonition of the great thinker Blaise Pascal to avoid «the two excesses: excluding reason and admitting only reason», knowing with certainty that «the heart has reasons that the mind does not know» and that "the last step of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things that surpass it."
Just as the Creator formed Eve from the side of Adam, so the Spirit formed the Church from the side of Christ. From Adam's sleep Eve was born, from the sleep of Christ's death the Church was born.
Saint John Chrysostom, in one of his catechesis, warns: "Beloved, do not pass over this mystery too easily" because in it there is, symbolically, the womb of our birth into the same family of God.
In the gospel of the apostle John we read that "one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear" and from the body of the dead Jesus "blood and water came out": the blood of the sacrifice, as a gift of love and the water of regeneration. «The blood and water come from the heart of Christ and mean that the sacrifice of Jesus gives us the Spirit of God, the Spirit of truth, the Spirit of love. The blood expresses the sacrifice of Jesus who shed his blood, who agreed to die for us; the water that came out with his blood in an unexpected way, for the evangelist John, is a "sign" of God. [...] On the other hand, in the Bible spirit and heart are intimately linked, the heart indicates the interiority of the man and within man the “spirit” departs and comes, which means breath», that breath with which God-Creator made Adam a living being.
In that lacerated side, Jesus invites every believer to put their finger as happened to St. Thomas. it is in the light of the Holy Spirit, sent upon Mary and the Apostles in the Cenacle with power, noise and fire, that we profess our faith in this new family of God.
The gift of the Spirit invites us to look again at the side of Christ and, in that water and blood, admire the image of the Church, a new creature, born from the water of baptism and regenerated by the energy of the Spirit through the Eucharist, the perennial sacrifice of the new and eternal alliance.