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Like the early Christians (1927)

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June 5,1927. Letter to the students of a center in Barcelona.
During the late 1920s and particularly in the 1930s, in the atmosphere of accelerated secularization in which he lived, Poveda referred with renewed emphasis to the men and women of the early Church, who were capable of keeping their faith and confessing it in the midst of a pagan society,

"On the day of the Holy Spirit I am taking up my pen to write to you. I do not know what else to say to you except that it is my constant aspiration to ask our Lord that your lives may be supernatural; that our households may be like those of the early Christians; that your lives may be like those of the first children of the Church; that your hearts, as women apostles, may be identical to those who, persevering in prayer together with the Blessed Virgin, received the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.

Take as mediator the one who is temple of the Holy Spirit. Be true daughters of Mary and you will share in the virtue, love, gifts, and fruits of the divine Spirit. If we must go to Jesus through Mary, we must also go to the Holy Spirit through Mary. If she gave us Jesus, she also attracts us to the Holy Spirit. If with and through Mary you come to possess the divine Spirit, the Work will be as fruitful, as firm, as solid and as divine as all those undertakings that are informed and enlivened by this divine Spirit.

May this devotion be central to the Work because no one needs the abundance of these divine gifts as much as you do for your apostolic work, and its fruits will make your undertakings perfect.

However, you must meditate on these truths, know them, and love the Holy Spirit. May he be your consoler and strength and inspire heavenly wisdom in you."

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