Come, Holy Spirit

We began the semester with a Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit. Here is what Pope Benedict had to say on the subject yesterday:

"Dear brothers and sisters," the Pontiff concluded, "let us indeed invoke at the beginning of this year the Holy Spirit, eternal youth of the Church: May he make each one of us feel the urgency of giving a consistent and courageous witness of the Gospel, so that saints will never be lacking, who make the Church shine as a Bride always pure and beautiful, without stain and without wrinkle, able to attract the world irresistibly to Christ, to his salvation."