The Persisting Spirit

Super quem videris Spiritum descendentem et manentem super eum, hic est qui baptizat. 'Et manentem.' Spiritus sanctus non solum descendit et apparet, sed etiam manet. Manet autem Deus non ubique per gratiam, sed ubi diligitur, ubi honoratur et ubi invitatur. Manet, inquam, ubi diligitur; unde primae Ioannis quarto: Qui manet in caritate in Deo manet, et Deus in eo. Non ubi ignoratur; unde Ioannis decimo quarto: Ego rogabo Patrem, et alium Paracletum dabit vobis, ut maneat vobiscum in aeternum, Spiritum veritatis, quem mundus non potest accipere, quia non videt eum nec scit eum. Vos autem cognoscetis eum, quia apud vos manebit et in vobis erit. Manet etiam ubi honoratur; unde Ioannis decimo quarto: Si quis diligit me, sermonem meum servabit. Ecce, honorificatio; et ad eum veniemus et mansionem apud eum faciemus; non ubi negligitur, quia, sicut dicitur Sapientiae primo, spiritus sanctus disciplinae effugiet fictum. Manet etiam, ubi invitatur, sicut et ipse Salvator mansit cum discipulis invitantibus ipsum: Et coegerunt illum dicentes: Mane nobiscum, Domine; et sequitur: Et intravit cum illis, Lucae ultimo. Ita facit Spiritus sanctus; unde Sapientiae septimo: Propterea optavi, et datus est mihi sensus et invocavi et venit in me spiritus sapientiae. Si volumus ergo, ut maneat nobiscum Spiritus, oportet, ut diligamus eum per caritatem, honoremus eum per obedientiam, invitemus per orationem. Sanctus Bonaventura, Collationes In Evangelium Ioannem, Caput I, Collatio V Source: Here, p542

On whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining on Him, this is He who baptises... 1 'And remaining.' The holy Spirit does not only descend and appear, but He even remains. But God does not remain everywhere by grace, but where He is loved, where He is honoured, and where He is invited. He remains, I say, where He is loved, whence in the first letter of John, chapter four: 'He who remains in love remains in God and God in Him.' 2 Not where he is disregarded, whence in the fourteenth chapter of John: 'I shall ask the Father and He shall send you another comforter who will remain with you forever, the spirit of truth whom the world is not able to grasp, because it does not see him nor know him. But you know him, because He shall remain with you and be in you.' 3 And He remains where He is honoured, whence in the fourteenth chapter of John: 'If someone love me, he shall keep my word.' Behold, honouring. 'And to him We shall come and make a dwelling with him' 4 Not where He is neglected, because as it says in the first chapter of Wisdom: 'The Holy Spirit flies the pretence of discipline.' 5 And He remains where He is invited, as the Saviour Himself remained with the disciples who invited Him. 'And they pressed Him, saying. Stay with us, Lord.' and it follows, 'He entered with them.' 6 In the last chapter of Luke. Thus the Holy Spirit acts, whence in the seventh chapter of Wisdom: 'As I have desired understanding was given me, and I called out and a spirit of wisdom came to me.' 7 If we wish, then, for the Spirit to remain with us, it is necessary that we cherish Him with love and honor Him with obedience and invite Him with prayer. Saint Bonaventura, Observations On The Gospel Of Saint John, Chapter 1 1 Jn 1.33 21 Jn 4.16 3 Jn 14.16-17 4 Jn 14.23 5 Wisd 1.5 6 Lk 24.29 7 Wisd 7.7