During the Mass for the Solemnity of Pente-cost, Pope Leo XIV recalls how the Holy Spirit accomplished ‘something extraordi-nary’ in the lives of the Apostles, and suggests that today, the Holy Spirit likewise descends upon us, ready to shatter our inner chains, fears, and hardened hearts, to make us new.
The Pope explained that the Holy Spirit brings the fruits within us to maturity in order to cultivate good and healthy relationships, and in doing so, broad-ens the borders of our relationships and opens us to the joy of fraternity.
“This,” he stressed, “is also a critical yardstick for the Church,” reminding that we are only “truly the Church of the Risen Lord and disciples of Pentecost,” “if there are no borders or divisions among us; if we are able to dialogue and accept one another in the Church, and to reconcile our diversities; and if, as Church, we become a welcom-ing and hospitable place for all.”
