Filled with the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit reveals to us the Son of God who took flesh and assumed our human nature. He creates within us the sense that God is present in the world. This feeling, this intuition, is the beginning of faith, and, as it matures so does our faith take hold and become deeply rooted in our hearts. Without the Spirit the Church could not have existed: "and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power" (1 Cor 2:4) "for our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction" (1 Thess 1:5).

The Holy Spirit will continue His work in us, filling us with the Light of Christ and confirming us in His Church. Through Him we receive a share in the life of the Holy Trinity. In his Epistle to the Ephesians (6:10-17) Paul emphasizes the reality of spiritual warfare and gives us advice so as to triumph over the spirit of evil present in this world. In doing so, he assures us that the power of Satan has been destroyed by Christ. In the service of Baptism, the believers begin their faith journey by renouncing the devil and all his works, and, by accepting Christ and by believing in Him. The conflict of which Paul speaks takes place  within our  hearts and  he gives us  the necessary weapons with which to battle the forces of darkness .... and the most important is the Word of God.