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#47_BWYR in twelve simple steps, "A Spiritual Awakening"--CONCLUSION, Final Episode 14

“Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” (Step 12 of the twelve steps) 

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Saint Basil wrote, “Through the Holy Spirit we are restored to paradise, led back to the kingdom of heaven, and adopted as children, given confidence to call God “Father” and to share in Christ’s grace, called children of the light and given a share in eternal glory.” 

(CCC 733) ”God is Love” and love is His first gift, (The HS is the love between the Father and the Son) containing all others! God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

(CCC 734) Because we are dead or at least wounded through sin, the first effect of the gift of love is the forgiveness of our sins. The communion of the Holy Spirit in the Church restores to the baptized the divine likeness lost through sin.

(CCC 735) He, then, gives us the “Pledge” or “First Fruits” of our inheritance: the very life of the Holy Trinity, which is to love as “God has loved us.” This love (the Charity of 1 Cor 13) is the source of new life in Christ, made possible because we have received “power” from the Holy Spirit. 

(CCC 736) By this power of the Spirit, God’s children can bear much fruit. He who has grafted us onto the true vine will make us bear “the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.” “We live by the Spirit”; the more we renounce ourselves, the more we “walk by the Spirit.”

Resources Cited:
Recovery, Russell Brand
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Gaudium et Spes

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