More on Blessed Elena Guerra

Blessed Elena Guerra, foundress of the Oblate Sisters of the Holy Spirit in Lucca, Italy at the end of the nineteenth century. She urged Pope Leo XIII to lead the Church back to the Cenacle/Upper Room. From 1895-1903, she wrote as led by the Holy Spirit to write 12 confidental letters requesting a renewed preaching on the Holy Spirit.
She exhorted the Pontiff to invite the faithful to rediscover life lived according to the Holy Spirit. She called and prayed for a renewal in the Church, the reunion of Christianity, a renewed society, and thereby "a renewal of the face of the earth". In her heart throbbed the idea of a permanent Pentecost: she said,
"Pentecost is not over. In fact it is continually going on in every time and in every place, because the Holy Spirit desired to give himself to all men and all who want him can always receive him, so we do not have to envy the apostles and the first believers; we only have to dispose ourselves like them to receive him well, and He will come to us as he did to them.
On the promptings of Sr. Elena, Pope XIII issued several documents concerning the Holy Spirit, 1895 Provida Matris Caritate, apostolic letter which asked for all the faithful to celebrate a solemn novena ( 9 days of prayer ) to the Holy Spirit between the feasts of Ascencion and Pentecost for the intention of the reunion of Christianity. At this time, the Pope requested that the novena was to be a perpetual novena, done every year between the two feasts mentioned.
Another important event, at the request of Sr. Elena, the Pope invoked the Holy Spirit on January 1, 1901 with the singing of the Veni Creator Spiritus, in the name of the whole Church.
On the that very day, in Topeka, Kansas, USA, at the Bethel College and Bible School, an outpouring of the Holy Spirit occurred, which has been generally accepted as the beginning of Pentecostalism in this era as it did at Pentecost with the Apostles. Then in 1906 a revival on Azusa Street, I believe in Los Angelis, California broke out and with this within 2 years it was across all continents.
Slowly it came to the Catholic Church in 1967, when the Catholic Charismatic Renewal began just 2 years after the end of Vatican II and 70 yrs. after Pope XIII 's encyclical letter on the Holy Spirit. .. to be continued.....

Lord send your consoling Spirit into your Church!