"The Holy Spirit was not a disembodied ghost, not an
immaterial being. On the contrary. The Spirit embodied the life force of the
universe, the power of God, the animating energy present in all things and
captured by none. Because of the Spirit, Jesus was not gone and God was not
distant, and the life force around us bore it proof. The Spirit was the restless
urge to life in us leading life on to its ultimate.
The Spirit of God
moves us to new heights of understanding, to new types of witness, to new
dimensions of life needed in the here and now... There is a magnet
in each of us, a gift for God that repels deceit and impels us toward good. The
gifts are mutual, mitered to fit into one another for strength and
surety....We are...equally adult, equally full
members, equally responsible for the Church. Nor does any one dimension of the
Church, then, have a monopoly on insight, on grace, on the promptings of God in
this place at this time. The Spirit of God is a wild thing, breathing where it
will, moving as it pleases, settling on women and men alike." Joan Chittister:
Essential Writings
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