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Dear Friends,<\/h2>\n

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And the God who answers by fire, he is God. \u20141 Kings 18:24<\/em><\/p>\n

T.S. Eliot, in his majestic Four Quartets<\/em>, describes it like this: \u201cThe dove descending breaks the air\/With flames of incandescent terror\/Of which the tongues declare\/The one discharge from sin and error.\/The only hope, or else despair\/Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre\/To be redeemed from fire by fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Holy Spirit descends in tongues as of flame at Pentecost; the Lord has answered by fire; and that fire, like all fire, burns. Scripture speaks at times of the fire of God\u2019s wrath\u2014but how should we understand the anger of God? God is love; he is the almighty Father who also loves us with the tenderness of a mother (Isaiah 49:15-17). Therefore, he is never angry at <\/em>us, in the sense that we understand anger. To imply this is to stray far from Christianity.<\/p>\n

God is not angry at <\/em>us, then, but he is, in a sense, angry for <\/em>us. The Lord\u2019s fire is directed at whatever wounds our true identity, at whatever harms our relationship with him, at whatever maims our true joy and freedom as his beloved sons and daughters. He is angry for us, and he will consume whatever prevents us being fully alive in his love.<\/p>\n

Fire burns, and in that process it purifies. What might the Holy Spirit, the consuming fire of God\u2019s love, be purifying in order to give me true life? What cobwebs of selfishness in the corners of my heart need the Holy Spirit\u2019s consuming flame?<\/p>\n

All this comes from the Lord\u2019s love; and that allows Eliot to affirm, \u201cWho then devised the torment? Love.\/Love is the unfamiliar Name\/Behind the hands that wove the intolerable shirt of flame\/Which human power cannot remove.\/We only live, only suspire\/Consumed by either fire or fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, of course, what T.S. Eliot can only hint at, the Holy Spirit accomplishes in our own personal Pentecosts: \u201cThe Love of God has been poured into our hearts, through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us\u201d (Romans 5:5). This love is fire; and as we consent to its action, we too know that \u201cthe God who answers by fire, he is God.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

God bless,<\/p>\n

Fr. John Pietropaoli<\/p>\n

Two Priests and a Mic podcaster<\/em><\/a> and host of Hope Does Not Disappoint<\/a><\/em> video series.<\/p>\n

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He served as chaplain at Divine Mercy University in Virginia from 2014-2017, as superior of the Legionary community in Philadelphia from 2017-2020, and as a professor at the Legionaries of Christ College of Humanities in Cheshire from 2021-2023. Currently stationed in Northern Virginia, he serves as superior of the Legionary community based at Divine Mercy University (DMU) and teaches in DMU\u2019s spiritual direction program. His contributions to RCSpirituality include writing\u00a0Retreat Guides\u00a0and\u00a0RC Essays,\u00a0co-presenting podcasts at\u00a0Two Priests and a Mic,\u00a0and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/jpietropaoli\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171830"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=171830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}