Many layers in the Papal election day

"They shall all be taught by God" from today's reading is a message of welcome exemplified by Pope Francis who had given a great model for his immediate successor.

It is always prophetic what is read in every Catholic Church lectionary in the Novus Ordo. Today Thursday of the Third Week of Easter | USCCB Reading 1 is from Acts 8:26-40

The angel of the Lord spoke to Philip," Get up and head south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route."

He sees an official there seeking to understand God while in his chariot journey. After accepting Philip's teaching on Jesus,

The eunuch said, "Look, there is water. What is to prevent my being baptized?" Then he ordered the chariot to stop, and Philip and the eunuch both went down into the water, and he baptized him. When they came out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but continued on his way rejoicing. Philip came to Azotus, and went about proclaiming the good news to all the towns until he reached Caesarea.

Azotus (modern day Ashod) and Jerusalem is 67 km away, 16 hours distance by walking and 48 minutes by car per modern GPS. This is even a Reddit thread because it obviously is a supernatural intervention because no one can simply be snatched and find themselves in another location, but that is commonplace in everyday real Christianity, as the Apostles experience. It is to the jealously of sci-fi writers--teleporting--or spirit travels but this is something where you simply can know is possible in the Holy Spirit. (Damien Stayne, a Catholic healer and teacher, shares his recent example HERE when his spirit went to a stranger's house.)

Pope Leo XIV seen below took the name Leo after a conversation with his brother who mistakenly through you cannot be called Leo because it would be the 13th and thus unlucky. But Cardinal Prevost knew better. Leo XIV is available and would be perfect. Leo, his immediate predecessor, far from being unlucky, gave the Church renewal in the Holy Spirit.

American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, Dicastery of Bishops' head, is now Catholic Church's Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIII is why Damien Stayne and many other lay people are bringing people to Christ, healing and preaching and working in miracles to bring them ultimately to the knowledge of the love of Jesus simply because Pope Leo XIII prayed to the Holy Spirit in 1901 and HE CAME!! And like the original Pentecost as FIRE! To Topeka Kansas and Asuza Street where literally a non-consuming fire burning in the roof for a whole year and where Pentecostalism is born and many gifts of the Holy Spirit (speaking in tongues, miracles, prophetic utterances, word of knowledge) that were present in saints and apostles and holy men in the past became revived in the laity once again.

Pope Leo XIII, gifted in prophetic vision, was able to see the evil in a dream involving and led him to compose the St Michael Prayer.

(One must note that America was founded on such a revival called the First Great Awakening where Christian preachers high in the Holy Spirit in the UK came to preach in the original colonies, using fields as venues like Jesus's time because thousands cannot be contained in little churches alone and that hymns and praises to God were commonplace in homes. The Second Great Awakening arrived then it sparked the evangelical zeal in Christian Churches and in the well-described movement to the Catholic church via the Dusquene University weekend the fire continued to grow and make many new converts.

Pope Francis, initially disliked the charismatic renewal in his native country because they were bold and noisy, he said. But then he became his biggest champion, seeing the many conversions, ministries, pro-life activities AND MIRACLES! of the charismatic renewal in the Catholic Church. He restructured it under a more organized umbrella called CHARIS, leaving countries to have their own chapters while having a resource office and a team of representatives in the Vatican. Here in the US the local CHARIS is headed by multilingual and lawyer-priest Msgr. Malagreca of Brooklyn. The other supportive national-level coordinating body, which was then-called National Service Committee of the Renewal is now doing business as Pentecost Today USA.

But the Holy Spirit cannot be outdone. Not only did he allude to spiritual realities being more commonplace by the First Reading--as it is the only way to truly understand and continue in the mission to every Christian which is to PARTAKE OF JESUS'S FLESH in HOLY COMMUNION, as the Gospel today says, "I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my Flesh for the life of the world." The Eucharistic reception represents the pinnacle and understanding of the whole Theology which He wants to impart--that He Who is the Word of God, became incarnated as God-Man for Divine Restitution for Original Sin which would bring all of humanity to the clutches of the devil. By His suffering and death, Infinite God yet Man, Christ, removed this curse from us, then in merciful and intense delight at His creatures, opened for us Heaven by resurrecting. The Holy Spirit resurrected Christ and gave us the Shroud of Turin image (via a projected burst of 270 gigawatts of ultraviolet radiation nowhere possible in manmade creation). He is the Divine Flame that arrived in Pentecost 33 AD and created the Church, the same one that enlivens all those who listen to the Father, again from the Gospel.

Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.

Pope Leo XIII is a listener who hears God's wisdom in others which led him to launch the Veni Creatur Spiritus (Come Holy Ghost) prayer in 1901.

And He also heard God literally discussing the warfare that Satan wants to wage against the Church, hereby creating the St. Michael prayer many of us say now after Mass.

St. Michael is a wonderful angel to know in knowledge of warfare, he whose name means "WHO IS LIKE GOD". When Lucifer decided to bolt with a third of the total angels ever created, it was the very God-focused (who-is-like-God) Michael who led the rest of the good angels to evict them from heaven. He had appeared in Gargano, Italy in the ancient times (between 4th and 8th centuries) asking for the consecration of a cave into a church, and three more times after.

The warfare that will happen can be done by intense focus on the Person of God, the Body of Christ, the Eucharist, and we must employ every and all charismatic gifts to win this offering of heaven. It is not any coincidence that Pope Leo XIV chose to take the spiritual baton from Pope Leo XIII who created the battle cry for warfare and Holy Spirit gifts on the very anniversary St. Michael's apparition in Gargano is celebrated: May 8.

Archangel is not the highest rank of angel, but the second lowest, but Archangel Michael leads them all in love.