St. Patrick Catholic Parish Podcast
St. Patrick Catholic Parish Podcast
The Holy Spirit Is Not a Side-Issue for Jesus (or For Us) | Fr. Mathias Thelen
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In this homily given on Ascension Sunday (May 17, 2025), Fr Mathias preaches on one of the reasons why Jesus ascends into heaven: to obtain the promise of the Father and baptize us in the Holy Spirit. This is what he died to do: to immerse us into the very life of God and to bear witness to him. Essentially, Jesus wants everyone to be baptized in the Holy Spirit
As Catholics we believe we receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit in the sacraments of baptism and confirmation. But we also believe that the sacraments are not magic and require proper interior dispositions for the graces of the sacraments to be released into our lives. Theologians call this release of the graces of sacraments of initiation as the "the baptism in the Holy Spirit"
After outlining key signs that one is baptized in the Holy Spirit, Fr Mathias encourages us to ask the Lord to baptize us in the Holy Spirit.