The Power of the Holy Spirit

John Paul II had no political power in the ordinary sense of the term, but by God, he had the Holy Spirit. And tapping into that spirit, he unleashed a power that did indeed undo the Soviet Union and the block of nations that surrounded it. Nobody when I was a young man would have predicted that the Soviet Union would collapse without some great cataclysmic world war. Or think of a, you know, mother Theresa in a somewhat different context. She cooperated with the Holy Spirit and unleashed this force. It's true of all the saints. So here's the thing everybody listening to me today: surrender your life over to the HolySpirit. Say, Lord, look, it