Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- When The Spirit Is Present

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that a tree is known by its fruits.
In the fifth chapter of his Letter to the Galatians,
Paul makes this very specific. He tells us that the fruits of the Holy Spirit
are "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control,"
implying that the Spirit’s presence in one’s life can be read
from its radiance in these soul-expanding qualities.

All of Paul’s "fruits of the Holy Spirit" are marks of an outward-looking,
expansive magna anima (great soul),
which stands in contradistinction to the pusilla anima (cramped soul) of the sinner.
Thus love is willing the good of the other as other;
joy is self-diffusive;
patience bears with the troublesome;
kindness makes the other gentle;
self-control restricts the havoc that the ego can cause; etc.

When is the Spirit present?
When these attributes are awakened and sustained;
when our souls are made great

+++ Jesus said to his disciples:
“Beware of false prophets, who come
to you in sheep’s clothing,
but underneath are ravenous wolves.
By their fruits you will know them.

Do people pick grapes from
thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Just so, every good tree bears good fruit,
and a rotten tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit,
nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good
fruit will be cut down
and thrown into the fire.
So by their fruits you will know them.”+++

Matthew 7:15-20:
[15] Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

[16] By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? [17] Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. [18] A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. [19] Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. [20] Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.

Barron, like Bergoglio is a false prophet. Nowhere does this Bible quote support Boobie's claim that:

He tells us that the fruits of the Holy Spirit are "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control," implying that the Spirit’s presence in one’s life can be read from its radiance in these soul-expanding qualities.

What Matthew Chapter 7 does tell us is:

[21] Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. [22] Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name? [23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity. [24] Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, [25] And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock.

Barron distorts the Bible as badly as Bergoglio does.

Barron dares hope Hell is empty, despite Mark Chapter 7.

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