In the new episode of “God and the world,” makes use of Irmgard Huber, head of the women’s pastoral care in the Archiepiscopal Ordinariate of Munich, on the feast of Pentecost thoughts.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen – Pentecost standing in front of the door, the Feast of the Holy spirit. The Bible tells us that he brought with tongues of fire and storm gebraus the frightened band of Disciples in the movement, you from the houses drive and in all languages, rousing the glad tidings to announce to let.
+ Irmgard Huber is the leader of the women’s pastoral care in the Archiepiscopal Ordinariate of Munich.
The great Church teacher of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) summed up for their own lives the Work of the Holy spirit in a different, gentler image. In a letter to an eminent clergy of the time, she reported that she felt sometimes like a small white feather, which could cause out of itself nothing. It is only by the breath of the spirit of God, they will be brought into movement.
The comparison limps a bit, because a spring can not move out of itself, Yes, in fact, a human being already. Hildegard wanted to show through this picture that she felt your assertiveness, your creativity and your impact on your fellow human beings as a gift of God. Because they entrusted themselves to God’s guidance, managed Much of what was for a medieval nun outrageous.
it is Interesting that the word for the spirit of God in Hebrew is a female: ruach. The breath of the spirit, and the contractions of a pregnant woman to have an intellectual kinship, as in the Hebrew word root of the Verb is included for the butt end, life take end of the in labor woman lying down Breathing is needed. Where the spirit can work force, as New, as life goes on, you might say. Last Monday, I was deeply touched by a post in the “mirror of the world”: Six young Afghan women have managed to get out of the car a extremely price-effective ventilation device for a Corona to develop patients. Ironically, in a country where violent Taliban would girls most of all in education and women want to write the rights of extremely small, manage a group of technology enthusiastic girl is a Sensation. Simply divine, you might say.
The spirit blows where he wills – to be where the Good is produced. I am convinced of that. The spirit of God does not bring people not only to confess their Faith joyful and exciting, he is the cause for all the creativity, the Positive creates – anywhere in the world. Right now, where we hunt worldwide, after Due to the Lockdown behind us, and to try, in spite of Corona, a with and for each other, should we think of Pentecost, and to trust that God’s spirit makes us children in the lurch.
