Led by the Holy Spirit
The course of the meditation: Calm down and feel your heart beating and your breathing reviving every vein of your body with oxygen. Then try to calm down so that you feel „released“ from yourself and hand over the leadership of your body and soul into the hands of the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit revives every part of your body. He heals your soul’s traumas. Like a breeze he flows through you, like living water flows and makes everything young, alive, creative. It takes away fears, torments, sins, scars. You stay clean, light, fresh, rested, protected. Your body begins to function originally, without interruption, healthy. You feel like in water, as if the light forces of the Spirit of God sway you, guide your breathing, your heartbeat. Let it enter into every breath: Thank you, God… Father, glory be to You…
All people are aware that they are not the fruit and project of some earthly beings. The oldest traditions tell us that we came out of God’s hand. Christian Revelation confirms this old tradition. Every detail of our body, our longings and our soul was „designed“ by God. We are the image and the likeness of God. We do not have a clear concept or image of God. And yet, we are soaked with him, wherever we turn we meet him, we touch him, and not only by the presence of his work, but he himself is everywhere. He holds all the strings of reality in his hands. The Holy Spirit revives everything that exists. With the breath of life our immortal soul was breathed into us, and he keeps our body alive and the functioning of everything we call man in us.
He is behind everything, he is the master, the owner of everything. We are guests in ourselves. Distrust of him or fears can disrupt his project within us. If we let him in, he accomplishes unimaginable longings in us. Especially in those who by baptism entered into a special communion with him. He dwells in their body as in a temple. If we surrender to the Holy Spirit, there is no limit to our possibilities. Then a new life begins in us. If we resist and murmur against him, everything stops. The Holy Spirit leads to freedom and peace.
He was born in Davor in 1938. After studying philosophy and theology in Zagreb and Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Zagreb Archdiocese in 1966. After achieving a master’s degree in philosophy and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he returned to Zagreb in 1971, where he became a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb. He is the head of the Chair of Fundamental Theology, and was one of the editors of the Theological Review. Areas of his scientific work are philosophy, theology and literature. He explores the relationship between philosophy and theology, faith and science, atheism and religiosity, revelation and faith, the Church and ecclesial communities, Christianity and religion, the phenomenon of sects and issues of theological epistemology. His special field of interest is the study of man’s existential-spiritual dimension, where he discovers the way of modern evangelization and the necessity of the development of spiritual medicine, which, along with somatic and psychological, is indispensable in the complete healing of man, especially in the healing of spiritual diseases and addictions. For this purpose, he developed the method of hagiotherapy and founded in 1990 in Zagreb the Center for Spiritual Help, of which he is the head. From 1971, in addition to working at the faculty, he was a student religious teacher in Zagreb, the initiator of the prayer movement within the Church of the Croats, the founder of a religious society called the Prayer and Word Community(MiR), and the leader of numerous seminars for spiritual renewal and evangelization at home and abroad. After completing his studies and scientific doctorate in fundamental theology at … (Read more at https://hagio.hr/tomislav-ivancic/).
