In this week's reflection, we enter the brief, expectant days between Ascension Thursday and Pentecost, when the disciples waited together in prayer for what Christ had promised. The Church's cry from Psalm 26, "I have sought thy face," becomes our own posture: not passive waiting but active longing and preparation. Drawing on Saint Basil the Great's On the Holy Spirit and Saint Peter Damian, the reflection explores Christ's promise of the Paraclete as the Spirit of truth who testifies to him, and how Saint Peter's call to prudence, charity, and stewardship of God's gifts prepares us to receive the Spirit's fire.

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