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font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Friends,
 once again in today’s Gospel<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> Jesus promises to send us the Holy Spirit.</b></span>
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> The Spirit is the fuel of the Church,</b></span> the energy and life force of the 
Body of Christ. And we can’t get him through heroic effort. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>We can only 
get him by asking for him. </b></span>That’s why, for the past two thousand years, 
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the Church has begged for this power from on high.</b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span></b></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Jesus
 told us that <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>the Father would never refuse someone who asked for the 
Holy Spirit</b></span>.
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>So ask! And ask again</b></span>! Realize that every liturgy is a begging for the 
Holy Spirit. Fr. Hesburgh of Notre Dame once commented that the one 
prayer that is always appropriate—whether one is experiencing success or
 failure, whether one is confident or afraid, whether one is young or 
old— is <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>"Come, Holy Spirit!"</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">He’s
 right, for this is the fundamental prayer of the Church. Mind you,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> we 
pray it, as the first Apostles did, in the presence of Mary and with her
 support. </b></span>In the Hail Mary, we say, "Pray for us sinners, now and at the
 hour of our death." What are we asking her to pray for but the Holy
Spirit?</span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>

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