The Word Among Us

May 2008 Issue

The Best Is Yet to Come

The Holy Spirit wants to do so much more in our lives!

By: Fr. George T. Montague

As I write this on Christmas Eve 2007, spouses are welcoming their uniformed loved ones from Iraq and Afghanistan for the holidays. As they hug and kiss, they already know that in a few days they will lose them again. If only they could stay! It’s a bitter-sweet experience. In this life, the visitation of the Holy Spirit is like that.

The Holy Spirit is the “first installment” of what is to come, the foretaste of heaven (2 Corinthians 1:22; Eph 1:14). He is the kiss...

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