Corpus Christi Church, Athlone, Ireland
Another gift of the Holy Spirit we stand in need of is: "amid the perplexities of life, a sure means of solving our doubts: the gift of counsel."
"By this gift we feel impelled to turn to the Holy Spirit, to obtain from Him light in our anxieties, and a clear knowledge of what it behooves us to do, in order to please God and save our souls. The Holy Spirit hearkens to the cry of our heart, and in His infinite bounty sends a ray of heavenly light to illlumine our soul, to dispel its darkness, to show it the way it should follow, and to fill it with a sense of security and peace."
The Blessed Mother showed us a great example of this at the Annunciation, when she gave herself over to the will of God. Sometimes I pray at the Agnus Dei of the Mass, grant us peace - the true peace of knowing the holy will of God, and doing it wholeheartedly.
O Holy Ghost, give the gift of counsel, "that I may know and perform in all things the holy will of God, and that I may therein find perfect peace." ~ Very Rev. Alexis M. Lepicier, OSM, The Fairest Flower of Paradise, imprimatur 1922.
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