"How to get into the mystery of the Holy Spirit, how to understand the secret of Love?", wondered then the Pope, who highlighted that the Gospel, proclaimed for the Pentecost, brings us back to the "Last Supper, where a feeling of dismay casts a gloom over the Apostles". This is because "Jesus’ words raise disturbing questions: He speaks of the hatred of the world against Him and His people, He speaks of His mysterious passing away, and there are still many things to be said, but the Apostles cannot bear that weight yet". So, to comfort them, He explains that "He will go" but "He will not make orphans of them": "He will send the Comforter, the Spirit of the Father, and it will be the Spirit that will made it known that Christ’s work is a work of love: love of Him who offered Himself, love of the Father who gave Him". This, explained Benedict XVI, "is the mystery of Pentecost: the Holy Spirit sheds light on man’s spirit and, by revealing Christ crucified and resurrected, shows the way to become more similar to Him, that is, to be the ‘expression and instrument of the love which emanates from Him’", as the Pope wrote himself at no. 33 of his encyclical "Deus caritas est". ” “Before saying the Regina Caeli, the Pope recalled that, "amidst the realities aroused by the Spirit within the Church, there are the church movements and communities", which he had "the joy of meeting in this square in a big world rally", on Saturday June 3rd.” “
