Most people at Pentecost Sunday Masses probably didn’t get it. The Holy Spirit, I mean. God the Father made the universe, and God the Son died to redeem it. But the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, Who hovered above the waters during Creation, caused the Blessed Virgin to conceive Jesus, came down from heaven at His baptism, and appeared as tongues of fire at Pentecost—that Spirit (a.k.a. Paraclete or Advocate)—what exactly is He?
By their fruits you shall know them, said the good book. So it is with the Holy Spirit, taking it from Fr. Tim Ofrasio, professor of systematic theology at Ateneo’s Loyola School of Theology. In his homily on the vigil before Pentecost, Fr. Tim counted five effects of the Third Person on the human mind and soul.
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