It is to be found in a new complete collection in English (in six volumes) of his homilies as archbishop. Good words for today, Whitsunday, Pentecost, the feast of the Holy Spirit, when we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit on Our Lady and the apostles, captured above by El Greco.īut these words are not from today but from a Pentecost sermon preached exactly 38 years ago in El Salvador by Blessed Oscar Romero, less than a year before his martyrdom. Violence, hatred, selfishness, falsehood: these appal us and help us realise how much we need the Holy Spirit in our hearts, in the Church, in the world. These words could easily be preached in any sermon in any part of the world today. Like St Augustine, we seek solutions in the world but never find them, and we say with him, “You have made us for yourself, Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” ’ This corresponds to humankind’s deepest longings, which cannot be satisfied by anyone except the very Spirit of God comes to take possession of us and to fill the vast emptiness we feel. This is a precious moment when we feel a great desire for justice, for truth, for what is absolute and transcendent. ‘If there was ever a time when the feast of the Holy Spirit takes on urgency, I think it is now when we see so much confusion, so many false values of redemption, so much militarism and selfishness, so much hatred and violence.
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