A NEW PENTECOST
Excerpts
from CONCHITA - A Mother's Spiritual Diary
"On
sending to the world a new Pentecost, I want it inflamed, purified,
illuminated, inflamed and purified by the light and fire of the Holy Spirit.
The last stage of the world must be marked very specially by the effusion of
the Holy Spirit. He must reign in hearts and in the entire world, not so much
for the glory of His Person as for making the Father loved and bearing
testimony of Me, although His glory is that of the whole Trinity" (Diary, Jan. 26, 1916).
"Tell
the Pope that it is My will that in the whole Christian world the Holy Spirit
be implored to bring peace and His reign into hearts. Only this Holy Spirit
will be able to renew the face of the earth. He will bring light, union and
charity to hearts.”
"The
world is foundering because it rejects the Holy Spirit, and all the evils which
afflict it have therein their origin. The remedy is found in Him. He is the
Consoler, the author of all grace, the bond of union between the Father and the
Son and the supreme conciliator since He is charity, uncreated and eternal
Love.”
"May
the whole world have recourse to this Holy Spirit since the day of His reign
has arrived. This last stage of the world belongs very specially to Him that He
be honored and exalted.”
"May
the Church preach Him, may souls love Him, may the whole world be consecrated
to Him, and peace will come along with a moral and spiritual reaction, greater
than the evil by which the world is tormented.”
"May
all at once this Holy Spirit begin to be called on with prayers, penances and
tears, with the ardent desire of His coming. He will come, I will send Him
again clearly manifest in His effects, which will astonish the world and impel
the Church to holiness" (Diary, Sept. 27, 1918).
"Ask
for this renewal, this new Pentecost, for My Church has need of priests
sanctified by the Holy Spirit. The world is foundering in the abyss since it
lacks priests who will help it from falling in; priests who bear the light to
shine on the paths of good; pure priests to pull out of the mud so many hearts;
priests afire who will fill the entire universe with divine love.”
"Ask,
supplicate heaven, that all may be restored in Me by the Holy Spirit" (Diary, Nov. 1, 1927).
"I
want to return to the world in My priests. I want to renew the world of souls
by making Myself seen in My priests. I want to give a might impulse to My
Church infusing in her, as it were, a new Pentecost, the Holy Spirit, in My
priests"
(Diary, Jan. 5, 1928).
"To
obtain what I ask, every priest must make a consecration to the Holy Spirit,
asking Him, through Mary's intercession, to come to them as it were in a new
Pentecost, to purify them, to fill them with love, possess them, unify them,
sanctify them and transform them into Me" (Diary, Jan. 25, 1928).
"One
day not too far away, at the center of My Church, at Saint Peter's there will
take place the consecration of the world to the Holy Spirit, and the graces of
this Divine Spirit, will be showered on the blessed Pope who will make it.”
"It
is My desire that the universe be consecrated to the Divine Spirit that He may
spread Himself over the earth in a new Pentecost." (Diary, March 11, 1928).
Lynne
Bauer, JMJ
