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Our recent celebration of Pentecost reminds me of the essential role of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Among the powerful blessings which the Holy Spirit imparts is peace. The Holy Spirit is the source of peace, love, protection, unity, inspiration, truth, and life.<\/p>\n

Jesus told us<\/a> He would send the Paraclete, Who would remind us of everything He said and would give us a wisdom that would confound our enemies. Saint Paul tells us that the Spirit will enable us to cry out, Abba, and will bestow the peace that passes all understanding. As we try to live out our lives as Catholics and Christians, we need to be aware of how our greatest advocate, consoler, protector, inspirer, transformer, and guide works in our lives and how we might be able to work in tandem with His wisdom and love.<\/p>\n

The peace coming from the Holy Spirit is more than mere relief from suffering, a sense of well-being, or a sense of equanimity. It is rooted in a deep sense of home<\/a>, home amid the cosmos (which we who have faith know is being at home with God). Its opposite is alienation, a sense of not being at home in or \u201cbeing out of kilter with\u201d the totality. The signature of the Holy Spirit is the sense of having a place in the totality, of \u201cfitting in\u201d, of being bathed in joy or light (even when one is aware of sadness and darkness), that is, of being in unity with the Creator and principle of all being.<\/p>\n

As Catholics and Christians, we very likely view this \u201cbeing at home in the totality\u201d, this \u201cfreedom from being alone in the totality\u201d, as \u201cbeing part of the mystical body of Christ\u201d. Being part of Christ\u2019s mystical body<\/a> through the Holy Spirit is an experience of home, holiness, unity, joy, and peace as seen through the eyes of thousands of saints who have embraced a life of holiness throughout history.<\/p>\n

Have you ever had the experience of being immersed in a tragedy or a troubling or threatening series of events, and, in the midst of these troubles, experiencing a deep sense of calm and assurance that everything is going to be all right?<\/p>\n

When I was younger I had such experiences of the peace that passes all understanding, but I actually tried to talk myself out of them. I remember hearing the news of my father\u2019s death, and having this deep and abiding peace and sense that everything was going to be fine. I thought to myself, \u201cI should not be feeling this; this is really tragic; my father was only fifty-nine years old; and furthermore, my mother is probably frantic; and furthermore, my sister is not finished with college; and furthermore\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The more the Holy Spirit attempted to intervene with peace, the more I guilted myself out of it. I later came to find, through multiple experiences of this \u201cpeace in the midst of troubles\u201d, that the Spirit was genuinely present, working within my life and the lives of people around me to bring good out of what seemed so negative. My advice is to take the peace<\/a> and follow the lead of the Spirit, Who assures us that everything is going to be all right. Doing this will give the Holy Spirit room to maneuver through your free will to bring about optimal goodness and love for you, others, the community, and the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n

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Adapted from Five Pillars of the Spiritual Life, By Fr. Robert Spitzer Our recent celebration of Pentecost reminds me of the essential role of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Among the powerful blessings which the Holy Spirit imparts is peace. The Holy Spirit is the source of peace, love, protection, unity, inspiration, truth, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

By Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cI give up, Lord. You take care of it.\u201d Sometimes life gets out of control. No matter how hard we try to obviate freefall or to figure ourselves out, life\u2019s circumstances seem to get the better of us.<\/p>

It is at these moments that I recommend the above prayer, which I have put to great use throughout my life. I recall my discovery of this prayer in Rome back in 1980. I had been sent to the Gregorian University to take all of my theology classes in Italian. I went to Italy two months early without any background in Italian to attain \u201cfluency\u201d.<\/p>

I was reasonably confident after studying the language in Perugia for two months that I would be able to understand my classes. My first class on the first day was an exegesis class on the Gospel of Matthew taught by a Spanish professor who spoke Italian faster than the Italians (with a Spanish accent!)<\/p>

I was not able to understand 25 percent of what he was saying and began to panic. I kept thinking to myself (in my unqualified ignorance) that I was going to \u201cgo down\u201d. What would I say to my Provincial? To my classmates? \u201cHere I am, back in the United States. I couldn\u2019t understand anything and I flunked out.\u201d Needless to say, I began to feel considerable discomfort.<\/p>

Realizing that circumstances were quite out of my control, I muttered, \u201cI give up, Lord. You take care of it!\u201d When I said this it seemed like steam came out of my ears. A pressure was relieved by simply giving it over to the Lord, Who could providentially bring some good out of my predicament.<\/p>

As a matter of fact, He did. The moment this prayer enabled me to calm down, I became content with understanding partial sentences and concepts. I could then begin to make sense out of the general line of thought which, in turn, built my confidence and thus enabled me to understand more.<\/p>

As the semester progressed, I began to understand far more of what the professor was saying and eventually made it to the final exam where the professor gave two or three choices of questions for various passages of Scripture. I was able to choose questions that pertained to the last parts of the course, thereby hiding my inadequate understanding of the first part. In the end, I did quite well. (Thank You, Lord!)<\/p>

Evidently, much of that success is attributable to my natural gradual appropriation of the Italian language and exegetical method, but much of it, in my opinion, was due to the composure and openness to the content induced by my trust in the Lord of love. That trust was galvanized through the above simple prayer \u201cI give up, Lord. 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