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HOMILIES

That’s why that the first thing that he will say is wait for the gift of the Holy Spirit! Wait for
the Holy Spirit! Without the Holy Spirit, the mission is impossible. Wait for the Holy Spirit!
So, praying, to be gathered in prayer, praying personally and with others to be in prayer, to
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, this is a priority for the mission. No Holy Spirit, no mission
is possible. We need the Holy Spirit to be in the mission. So, the two go hand in hand. Waiting
for the gift of the Holy Spirit, praying with Mary for the gift of the Holy Spirit, and listening to
the call for the Mission. To hold the two together. But even there, it’s not an easy path! That’s
why he adds to it by saying: “I’ll be with you ‘til the end of time!” I will be with you, not once a
year! No! Every day! Every day ‘til the end of time!

So, today in this pandemic, Jesus Christ is with us. He’s with us so that we’ll live through him.
But he’s with us also giving us the Holy Spirit to be in a mission today. The mission never
stops. The mission is here, right now, in this pandemic. How to fulfill the mission? Well, we
need to pray so that the Holy Spirit will guide us and the fulfillment of the mission that God
entrust us today, in this situation, in this world.

As we are preparing for the Pentecost, we’re called to pray every day to prepare ourselves to
the Pentecost. Praying to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. If the mission is important for us,
we believe in the mission, we want to promote, made known the love of Jesus Christ, we want
to make known the Mercy of God, but we need to pray the Holy Spirit.

So, let us pray to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. And let us ask the Holy Spirit, to put in our
heart a burning desire to witness the love of God, to witness to Jesus Christ today.

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