The life of the Christian must be all filled with the Holy Spirit. At all times he must know how to recognize the will of God. What he wants from him in every particular situation and condition of his history. If the Spirit is not in abundance on the disciple of Jesus, he will never know where to take, to lead, to stabilize, to stay, to go. The Christian is he who always sees according to God. He accepts the will. It lives its every consequence. It remains in peace. It is strengthened in hope. It offers itself as a victim and holocaust of love for the fulfillment of redemption on our land.
What are the Acts of the Apostles if not the description of the life of the living Church under the powerful guidance of the Spirit of the Lord? It is the Spirit of God that moves the Church within it, to make it grow in holiness, outside it, so that it can grow with new children. If for a moment the Holy Spirit would abandon the Church, this would be in the confusion, in the confusion, in the operative, missionary chaos, of faith, of doctrine, of science, wisdom, intelligence. It would be a dead Church, because all intent on dead works that do not give life. Instead the Spirit of the Lord blows on it, and the gates of his spiritual prison open and it begins its mission in the world.
The Christian is called to remain a Christian in every situation of his life, which will not be easy. He will be betrayed, denied, sold, scourged, hated, crucified, stoned, skinned, delivered to the beasts, bandit, inmate, abandoned. How will he remain perennially faithful to Christ in the same way that Christ was faithful to the Father? The secret is his perennial stay in the Holy Spirit, which is for him a word of defense, a fortress for overcoming every trial, certainty in the truth, food in faith, charity in the hatred of his brothers, light in the darkness that falls on of him.
The Spirit of God is the perennial life of the Christian. For this reason the Christian and the Spirit of the Lord will never be two distinct, divided, separate realities. They have to form one thing. Just as Christ Jesus is one with the father and the Holy Spirit, so the Christian must be one with Christ, and in Christ, with the Father and the Holy Spirit. It is God the perennial source of the life of the Christian and when the Christian is in God, he is in life even when he is in death, in captivity, in prisons, under the scourges, under the stones. As God is life on the cross for Lord Jesus, so life will be on every cross that the Christian is called to undergo to bear witness to Christ
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