Holy Spirit Within You

Today’s Gospel reading was from Matthew 12:22-37. In addition to all the previous readings, there was a centered focus on work of the Holy Spirit. There is positive work that the Holy Spirit can do in our lives, but there is a need for us to open our hearts and allow the Spirit to work within us. Pneumatology is the study and explanation of the Church’s doctrine of the Holy Spirit. It invites us to trace the Church’s experience and understanding of the operation of the Holy Spirit in God’s creation and in the Christian community itself, the logic that led the Church to confess the Holy Spirit to be a divine hypostatic entity (distinct but inseparable from the Father and the Son), and finally the significance of the Holy Spirit for the life of the faithful, the Church and the world. Studying and discovering the work of the Holy Spirit does not leave us with information only but with a relationship with God the Father, through His Son Jesus Christ. In the homily, I ask the question, What have you heard about the Holy Spirit?