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Text Box: reason and increases the love, desire, and reason for it beyond any measure possibly attainable by fear. When a person attends Sunday Divine Liturgy because of the Commandment to keep holy the Sabbath Day, the Lord’s Day, the element of love for God may be present, but so too are the elements of obedience and fear and perhaps obedience inspired by fear. But when a person attends Sunday Divine Liturgy grateful that God established an order and system whereby that person is able to worship God in the manner which God expressly desires, that gratefulness is of necessity inspired by love for God. It is that love for God which is the greatest inspirational gift of the Holy Ghost. Raising the dead to life, moving mountains, understanding languages you have never studied or heard, having others hear you in their own language when it is different from the language you speak, all rank in the top of being spectacular and impressive - right up there along with having lightning flash from your finger tips. Often these and similar things are what people think of when considering the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But the most important, enduring, necessary, and spectacular gift of the Holy Spirit is Charity (Agape Love, Divine Love) with which the Holy Ghost often excites the human love natural to us into His own Divine Love. It is resonance with Charity, with Divine Love, which is the foundation of the peace, comfort, and still but deep resolution towards perfection, which one experiences after Sacramental Confession and Absolution - be it for simple sins or significant sins. In that resonance we appreciate - we like and enjoy - worshiping God in Divine Liturgy. In our own acquisition of the Holy Spirit in ever increasing measure we ever increase our measure of Divine Love from God, the measure of His Divine Love in our essence, our own distribution of Divine Love, and the extent of our own operating divinely.

Text Box: We know that God the Father is the Magisterium of The Blessed Trinity. It is the Father who has established the Commandments, rules of conduct, and standards which each person must embrace and make part of their beings, for each person to attain eternal life. We know that Jesus Christ, God the Son and the only begotten of the Father, is Saviour and Redeemer, who repaired the ability of each human to effectively embrace the Father’s will, and who established Sacraments, procedures, and standards by which we receive the Grace needed to attain the joy of eternal life. The Holy Ghost touches those who are receptive, enabling their harmonious response to the Father, the Son, and to Himself. Perhaps, just perhaps, the Holy Ghost does not restrict Himself to touching just those who are receptive. If so, the heart of the Holy Ghost must be constantly wounded with rejection. Are we able to heal those wounds with our acceptance? Ref: Acts 2:1-11; John 14:23-31 +

Text Box: his experiences, these facts, and assess them intellectually, resulting in Saint Paul’s becoming a Christian. The process took but an instant, but it took place intellectually. Only after his conversion did emotions become a part of Saint Paul’s Faith. Only after the intellectual process did the emotional aspects of being a follower of Christ make their appearance in Saint Paul’s life. And that is true of any real conversion to Christianity. It also is true of any valid practice of the Christian Faith. Those who believe they are Christians, but whose Christianity is based in emotion and not in intellect, follow a system of belief that is either immature or incomplete or both. A child or one with diminished mental capacity can fruitfully sustain a belief based in emotion but it will be neither accurate nor complete unless it is also intellectual to some measure. But an adult or one with normal intellectual ability who relies mainly on emotional belief can not fruitfully sustain anything approaching Faith, and will of necessity be in error, perhaps in gross error. These are true because emotional comprehension, and understanding based in emotions, are subject to the sway of the very emotions in which they are based, and vary in intensity, and also are swayed by the other emotions, including the personal desires, of the individual. However, belief based in intellectual comprehension is based in assessment of facts, and with that same intellectual assessment comes either a willful and intentional rejection of Faith or a willful and intentional acceptance of Faith. Christianity based in emotions is actually something akin to following natural instincts. There is very little difference between a totally emotional following of Christ, and the body’s

Text Box: right up there along with having lightning flash from your finger tips

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