But the Spirit is usually the divine person to whom we give orders: Come! Give us, filled our hearts, penetrate, enlighten … Let us try to change the mode, tell him: I love you, Spirit of love and truth, I love you, I give myself to you, you are my joy!

To tell the Holy Spirit that we love him it is to recognize him as a Person, and a divine Person; it is to enter into a relationship with Him, and to let him also to tell us of his love, his desire for communion, because love always tends to reciprocity. To say to the Holy Spirit: I love you; it is already to love Him and to experience His love for us, for each one of us in a very special way.

To tell to the Holy Spirit that we love Him, is to engage ourselves in a personal relationship with Him, a dialogue that will bring us into the same movement, in the love of the Father and of the Son, the only and unique God.

“Love “was moving over the face of the waters”,
Love descends today …
Everything is love in Love himself … ”
we sing in the liturgy.

O Love, Holy Spirit who are yourself Love, I love you, I tell you, I adore you, you are all for me …
May we, on this feast of Pentecost, whisper gently and constantly this prayer, this song, this invocation. And that all our brothers around us may repeat it with us!

Happy and loving Feast of Pentecost!

PS : This text is a free inspiration based on a speech of Bishop Jules Zerey, Melkite Archbishop of Jerusalem, at the end of the Mass of the Ascension at Carmel of the Pater Noster, Jerusalem.

Dites à l’Esprit Saint que vous l’aimez, dites-lui : Esprit Saint, je t’aime !
On ne dit pas beaucoup, pas assez, à l’Esprit Saint que nous l’aimons. Nous le disons à Jésus, à la Vierge Marie …