Further Information

• In 1975, Pope Paul VI wrote this letter to Carinal Suenens to emphasize the need to for devotion to the Virgin Mary and to the Holy Spirit.
  http://campus.udayton.edu/mary//resources/documents/suenens.html
• Mary and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal
  http://www.catholicfraternity.net/images/RelazioneFiuggi%2003.pdf

  "Mary is our model in the following aspects: First of all, she is the prototype of the Church owing to her receptivity to the Holy Spirit who forms Christ in the People of God. This doctrine, highlighted by Vatican II, revealed Mary as the mirror of the Church, in relation to her presence at the first outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem. Secondly, Mary is the model of an everlasting Pentecost in the Church. The experience of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit over Mary in Jerusalem was neither the first nor the only one. St. Luke presents the Annunciation as a proto- Pentecost of Mary. Actually, the terms he uses for the two events are identical: at the Annunciation he says: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you” (Lk 1:35), and at Pentecost: the Holy Spirit will come upon you” (Acts 1:8)."