Third Sunday After Pentecost

The committed brethren know that, in our Church, we refer most of the Sundays of the year to Pentecost. We say the first Sunday after Pentecost, or the third, or the twentieth... This sets before us to increase our trust in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, without Whom nothing of the mystery of the new life is understood nor any good thing is done. It is the work of the Holy Spirit to convince us, one Sunday after another, that is, every day, that what Jesus had said to His disciples: “follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men” (second Sunday after Pentecost), He wants it to be living in us. His work is to inseminate in us that we are His disciples, that is, to always reveal to us what He wants of us in the service of the world. It is not impromptu that the Church, after the second Sunday in which we read the news of the calling of the first disciples, reads, on this third Sunday, something of Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon of the Mount (Matthew 6: 22-33). There is no disciple without a Word. Remind yourselves every day that the Holy Spirit is with us. Ask Him to guide you to His Truth. This is the way for our renewal and for the salvation of the world.