According to him, “to celebrate the feast of Pentecost is to become aware of the action of the Holy Spirit in us.”
“The Spirit of God who descended on the disciples and on Mary continues to descend today on the Church and on each one of us,” the Angolan member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) further said.
Today, he continued, “we are called to become aware of the presence of the Holy Spirit in the Church and in our lives. We need to invoke him in all our activities, so that he may guide our steps.”
“We need to allow the Holy Spirit to produce in us the gifts that he gives; we need the gifts of the Holy Spirit to be at the service of the community,” the Bishop of Benguela Diocese since June 2018, following his transfer from Caxito Diocese said.
He added, “It is God’s Holy Spirit who gives us the strength to bear witness to the faith.”
“The Holy Spirit gives us the strength to bear witness to our faith and to bear witness to our faith is to evangelize,” Bishop Jaca said.
Followers of Jesus Christ, he said, have the duty “to make the word of God reach our brothers and sisters, in our own home, in our family, in the place where we work, anywhere, with our way of being and acting.”
The Angolan Catholic Bishop went on to emphasize the need for Christians to seek the power of the Holy Spirit in fostering their identity as witnesses of Jesus Christ.
He explained, “We must identify ourselves as Christians. And this is only possible with the power of God’s Holy Spirit. We need God’s Holy Spirit to do his work of sanctification in us so that we are not just Christians in name, but true disciples of Jesus.”
“We need to evaluate our Christian life, to know how we are doing, how we are doing on our Christian journey, how we are doing in our sacramental life, how we are doing in our prayer life, how we are doing in our family, which is also the domestic church,” he said.
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