Spiritus ubi vult spirat (Jn 3:8) – the Spirit blows where He wills. These are words from the Gospel, which Our Lord addressed to Nicodemus, words that acquire their true meaning only when read in light of the sentence immediately preceding them: Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit (Jn 3:5-6). Yet there are those, within a “Church” that claims to be inspired by a “new Pentecost,” who would seek to compel the Holy Spirit to blow not where He wills, but rather where rebels and heretics desire, so as to ratify that which is born of the flesh. These individuals peddle their frauds, their doctrinal errors, the “Conciliar Spring,” the “Synodal Path,” deaconesses and female bishops, sodomitical unions, the ecumenical pantheon, and the worship of Mother Earth – all as the work of the Paraclete. But how could the Holy Spirit promote that which contradicts what He Himself has spoken through the Prophets and through the infallible voice of the perennial Catholic Magisterium? How could the Spirit of Truth teach falsehood? How could the Consoler sow confusion and division among His faithful?
The conciliar and synodal church – a grotesque counterfeit of the true Church of Christ – goes so far as to fashion for itself a god for its own use and consumption: an ecumenical and inclusive god, a god who demands neither conversion nor penance, a god who did not become incarnate to redeem us through His own Passion, but who “abdicates,” so to speak, His own divinity to allow Himself to be supplanted by man – man who makes himself god, and who deifies alongside himself a Magnifica humanitas in rebellion, a Dignitas infinita forged of pride and a rejection of the Cross.
The Spirit blows where He wills.
In the face of the apostasy of the highest echelons of the Hierarchy, the Holy Spirit continues to blow where He wills – that is, in the same place where He has always willed and where He always will – perpetuating, through the outpouring of His gifts, the work of Creation, Redemption, and Sanctification of the Most Holy Trinity. It is a work that Holy Church is called to accomplish principally through the Sacraments. To this task are called the Apostles, who received the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room, and to this task are called their Successors. They have received the fullness of the Priesthood, which perpetuates Holy Orders and the Holy Mass, the beating heart of the Church, within the unbroken line of Apostolic Succession. It is to them that Our Lord has entrusted the task of pouring forth the Holy Spirit, even when crisis strikes the very summit of the ecclesial body; even when, upon the Throne of the Prince of the Apostles, sits a usurper who, abusing a subverted authority, actively fosters dissolution and hinders good Pastors from fulfilling their Ministry. The Holy Spirit blows where He wills – the same place where He has always willed and where He always will – for He acts with absolute sovereignty, invisibly yet unequivocally, and without following the convoluted paths dictated by those who act according to the flesh. The fruits of the Paraclete – repentance, conversion, peace, charity, and holiness – are not engineered in synodal assemblies or discussion groups; nor are they achieved by adulterating the Truth, corrupting Morality, or through intrigue and falsehoods. He is the Spiritus sapientiae et intellectus; the Spiritus consilii et fortitudinis; the Spiritus scientiae et pietatis. He is the exact opposite of how the Prince of this World and his servants operate, both within and outside the Church.
