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This command of the Lord to our first “father” and “mother” makes us also aware of our own calling and commitment to El Shaddai. He wants us to walk in His presence and be blameless, to live and to let live, and to be fertile and fruitful. He also wants us to share love and life in a world that is so selfish, afraid to face life, and decrees death to millions of innocents who are being deprived of El Shaddai’s gift of life. The Spirit of Our Celebration |
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We owe our faith to El Shaddai, and we are witnessing these days an abundant outpouring of the Holy Spirit to men and women. We are also looking forward to the time when He will fill the whole earth. In the Book of Numbers, we read the story of how God took some of the Spirit that he had given to Moses and bestowed it on the chosen seventy elders, who thereupon became men of God or prophets. When a young man protested to Moses and asked him to stop them from prophesying, Moses exclaimed a wish: “...Would that the Lord might bestow His Spirit on them all!” (Numbers 11:29). |
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Four hundred years later, the Spirit came to dwell in a virgin (Luke 1:35) who became the mother of the Word-made-flesh, Who on the Cross gave the same Spirit to all that He loved and died for. By His grace we are among these people He loves. That is the very reason why we all joyfully celebrate El Shaddai’s love for all of us. The Catholic Charismatic and the New Evangelization I would like to assure all of you that this phenomenon of Catholic Charismatic is a work of the Holy Spirit, Who has always been active in the history of His people. In our present time, the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, calls it the new evangelization. |
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