The Year of St. Paul - The Action of the Spirit

The Action of the Spirit

The Holy Spirit gives understanding. Overcoming the “breach” begun in Babel — the confusion of hearts, putting us one against the other — the Spirit opens borders.

The People of God who found its first configuration on Mt. Sinai, now becomes enlarged to the point of recognizing no limitations. St. Paul explains and underlines this when he says: “It was in one Spirit that all of us, whether Jew or Greek, slave or free, were baptized into one body. All of us have been given to drink of the one Spirit” (1 Cor 12:13).

Pope Benedict XVI’s Homily for the Mass of Ordination on 15 May 2005