Grace and the Holy Spirit

…supreme wisdom…is “from above”; it is given to those who have the humility and the docility to receive it; it is given to those who have learned to be as little children.  Wisdom is to those who are obedient to Reason; that conformity is not a negation of freedom, a yoke upon the mind, but the liberation of the spirit from darkness into a light; it is the joy and peace and exhilaration of learning from love.  It is peace in particular, because it brings with it a security—of the well as well as of the mind—which no acquired wisdom can have.  “And when they shall bring you into the synagogues and to magistrates and powers, be not solicitous how or what you shall answer, or what you shall say: for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what she must say”.  You are carefree, you cannot be racked with worry, your mind is at rest, because you have the untroubled vision and the docility of the child.  –Father Gerald Vann ‘The Divine Pity’

St Peter's Basilica

St Peter’s Basilica

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