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Moyses Azevedo: God performs a new outpouring of His Spirit

Every year, the general counsel of the Shalom Catholic Community have a retreat to pray and to listen from God his wisdom for our lives as disciples and ministers of peace in the world. After it, the founder shares God’s inspirations for the Community. This year the main revelation was that God desires to perform a “Pentecost of Love” in us. We believe that what God wishes to do is for all the Church and mankind, so we are sharing here some parts of God’s message to us, his beloved children.

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To be a mystagogue

First, Moysés invites us to be a mystagogue in order to penetrate into God’s mystery and allow yourself to be reached and taken by it. He continued saying that “to listen to God’s voice it is very important to have our hearts cleansed of our own voice and opinions because God’s work cannot be done in a purely human way, but it is our role to have a sincere, rightly motivated heart making that ascesis (the exercise of self-discipline) necessary to allow God’s voice to be recognize, enabling us to adhere to it.

 

Time of grace

According to the founder, there is a great outpouring, a strong outpouring of the Holy Spirit over us which means that it is a time of grace.

“God is performing a Pentecost of love, He is shedding on us a new outpouring of His Spirit. God is giving new gifts to us which can be summed up in two: mercy and grace.”

 

New belonging to God

Explaining the consequences of this “new outpouring of the Holy Spirit” Moysés highlights that God through his mercy is providing a new awareness of who we really are, with this grace being a new way to belong to God. God’s his gifts and virtues belong to us because we belong to Him, therefore said gifts are what makes us God’s mediators on earth. Moreover, he added that God’s mercy comes upon our weaknesses like a spark coming from heaven that falls down on a large haystack with dry, dirty and wet hay, thus producing a big fire. In other words God’s mercy reaches our dry lives and turns it into a light to the world, because his power is greater than our weaknesses.

“What we have is our dryness, our poverty, our nothingness and even our filth. All we need is to give our permission allowing us to be reached by the spark. The Holy Spirit can reach us in our weakness if we let go. If we allow the spark to touch our dried hay, then a huge, capable fire will be produced and your life and the life of many will be illuminated.”

To conclude the founder clarifies that the “Pentecost of Love” is like a divine fire which burns, heats, and lights, transforming lives but it demands from us the freedom to consume, the will to be overtaken by this fire, he concluded:

“This Pentecost of Love is nothing more than letting ourselves be consumed by the love for God and others, it is to let God do His will in our lives, to let ourselves be sanctified by love.”


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