Holy Spirit Works

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How does the Holy Spirit being the Spirit of God
show us He is working in our daily lives? How do I
recognize this on a constant basis?
 
Missy_McLean said:
How does the Holy Spirit being the Spirit of God
show us He is working in our daily lives? How do I
recognize this on a constant basis?
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The answer is to test the spirits so we know they are from God. This leads to a more complicated question of how we test the spirits. 😃
 
A daily prayer regimen is just like calisthenics for the soul, including the soul’s ability to discern the Holy Spirit. First question, however, is this: are you Baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? (Holy Spirit) If not, take care of that before venturing further. You must be cleansed of Original Sin by such a Baptism in order to be available to the Grace of the Holy Spirit in the first place. Chances are, this was done for you.

So, start with the simplest and most common form of Catholic spiritual exercise and pray one round (5 decades) of the Holy Rosary every day. As your soul grows in spiritual strength, you will want to do more, but don’t rush it. You may find a Confraternity or other Catholic group to join which will provide you with a daily rule of prayer & practice, or you may go it alone with the guidance of a Saint like St. Ignatius Loyola or Ste Therese de Liscieux or any number of other saints who have written wonderful spiritual guides.

Growing strong enough to discern the Holy Spirit is just like deciding to run three miles a day. At first it is impossible, but if you run a few steps every single day and then walk as soon as you are tired, before you know it, you will in fact be running three miles a day easily.
 
Fulton Sheen offered the following as good to remember when reflecting on the Holy Spirit:

“The Holy Spirit reveals the Son (Jesus), as the Son reveals the Father”

And

“The Holy Spirit reveals Jesus most perfectly when we obey God’s law”

I often meditate on these two things. They sound simple but are very profound.
 
Here is a quote from the autobiography of St Ignatius de Loyola: (in third person because he dictated it to another Jesuit)
When he thought of worldly things it gave him great pleasure, but afterward he found himself dry
and sad. But when he thought of journeying to Jerusalem, and of living
only on herbs, and practising austerities, he found pleasure not only
while thinking of them, but also when he had ceased.
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This difference he did not notice or value, until one day the eyes of
his soul were opened and he began to inquire the reason of the
difference. He learned by experience that one train of thought left
him sad, the other joyful. This was his first reasoning on spiritual
matters. Afterward, when he began the Spiritual Exercises, he was
enlightened, and understood what he afterward taught his children
about the discernment of spirits. When gradually he recognized the
different spirits by which he was moved, one, the spirit of God, the
other, the devil, and when he had gained no little spiritual light
from the reading of pious books, he began to think more seriously of
his past life, and how much penance he should do to expiate his past sins.
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This book is available to read online, here: gutenberg.org/etext/24534
 
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