{"id":15689,"date":"2014-12-10T01:01:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=15689"},"modified":"2014-12-10T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T13:54:11","slug":"the-baptism-in-the-spirit-gives-us-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2014\/12\/10\/the-baptism-in-the-spirit-gives-us-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baptism in the Spirit Gives Us Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pe_roger\"<\/a>The baptism in the Holy Spirit gives us strength.<\/strong><\/span> Do not prevent yourself from taking that\u00a0bath, this baptism regenerates our soul and our heart and gives us contrition for our sins.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“This is the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths'”<\/em> (Mark 1.1).<\/span><\/p>\n

We contemplate today the figure of John the Baptist;<\/span> it is he who prepares the ways of the Lord. He is the one who goes ahead as a tractor, the bulldozer, opening roads for the\u00a0one who will pass.<\/span> How does he prepares the ways of the Lord?\u00a0<\/span>John is the voice,\u00a0he\u00a0is not the Word, he is the voice that proclaims the word that is coming.<\/span> John is the voice that announces the Word of God, who is coming to manifest in our midst!<\/span><\/p>\n

St. John the Baptist lends his mouth, his tongue and his voice so that the Word of God reaches hearts.<\/span> Similarly, God needs your voice, needs your kind words, your words are from Him so that the Word from Him comes to hearts.<\/span><\/p>\n

As St. John was the voice to prepare the hearts for the Lord to come, we must also be the voice of God that His Word will reach many hearts<\/strong> is like saying.<\/strong> “My word is not mine, what is Mine is my voice, I declare that the Word is the eternal Word of God, Christ Jesus our Savior. “<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

John’s baptism lifts up\u00a0repentance from sin, repentance and desire for change of life.<\/span> To go to meet God we need to be touched, every day, by\u00a0the word “repentance”.<\/span><\/p>\n

For weaker among you do not avoid taking this bath, this baptism regenerates our souls and our hearts and gives us contrition for our sins. Do not get used to sin, do not let sin take shape in your life repent\u00a0!<\/strong>When we are being washed, every day, that baptism gives us contrition and repentance, Jesus baptizes us in His Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the baptism in the Spirit that gives us strength to live the life of the young man and young woman, baptized and baptized in the Spirit of the Lord.<\/span> That baptism that gives conditions us to live life in the Spirit.<\/span> Thus we are strengthened, encouraged\u00a0and\u00a0driven.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is why St. John says that he baptizes us with the water and shows us the way of repentance for the one\u00a0who baptizes in the Spirit is Jesus.<\/span> It is the Lord Jesus who\u00a0vests\u00a0us in His Holy Spirit and makes us full of the same Spirit to the new life of God that is fully in us.<\/span><\/p>\n

God bless you!<\/span><\/p>\n