THE HOLY SPIRIT AND LOVE OF HUMAN SOULS:
Every priest/christian, when he goes before the Lord for judgment, will be asked, "where are your children?" The Christian/Priestly is primarily to beget souls in Christ Jesus. Shall we mount the pulpit{preaching platforms} and denounce unnatural birth control in the flesh, while we practice it in our spirit? Shall mothers be blamed for not having more children when our baptismal records show no souls begotten in Christ in years especially adult baptisms? The limits of our parish and boundary of our duty are not the faithful alone, but "other sheep too, which do not belong to this fold" {John 10:16}. Every human soul is our responsibility as Christians and many would join the fellowship of the brethren if we but ask them. The error of many priests/christians is that they are more concerned with the administrative {jobs/careers/business/finances} than with the evangelical {soul-winning for Christ Jesus not for FAME/NUMERIC STRENGTH}.
Do we organize for soul-saving with the same ZEAL as we organize for fund-drives? When money is needed, a priest thinks nothing of organizing a door-to-door canvass; but how often does he make a door-to-door canvass for CONVERTS? Are we having our parish continually replenished by souls who come to tell what God has done for them? Where the Holy Spirit is found, there are CONVERSIONS:
"And each day the Lord added to their fellowship others that were to be SAVED" {Acts 2:47}

The number of conversions per priest/christian per year in our society is few. But who among us does not know many who have left the one fold and one Shepherd because of broken vows, lust for a second or third marriage, sophomoric pride, lust of flesh, lust of eyes, love for the world e.t.c
Do we have catechetical centers and use them to train the brethren to be apostles and to live out the full responsibilities of the sacrament of confirmation? Every parish should be a nursery in search of human souls who are not of the fold: every priest/christian, a shepherd in search of lost sheep; every Holy Mass, a proclamation that salvation/redemption must be spread to the whole human being in the world.
"Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
is the Lord's patience exhausted?
Are these his doings?
Do not MY WORDS DO GOOD to one who walks uprightly?" {Micah 2:7}

Is the Holy Spirit less bountiful, less able to save human souls now than at Pentecost? Is the tenure of our priestly/christian life holding in check those fires and mighty winds of CONVERSION? Why do the Pentecostal fires burn so brightly in the mission lands and so feeble in our parish? Has the tide of the Holy Spirit run out of our harbors? The fault is not the Holy Spirit, for "God does not repent of the gifts He makes" {Romans 11:29}. The rushing of the mighty winds has not calmed and stilled itself into stagnancy or sterility. The Holy Spirit is still READY to overshadow our priesthood/Christianity, so that we may bring forth those who are HOLY.

The priest/Christian acts from without, the Holy Spirit acts from within. We wish one another blessings; He{the Holy Spirit} gives blessings. He alone can plant in a heart, by His divine husbandry, the seed {Gospel of Grace} that will blossom into a "new creature in Christ" {2 Cor 5:17}.
The selfishness and sloth that makes us shrink from searching for human souls can be consumed by The Holy Spirit. All around us, in our parishes/offices/streets/markets/biz-area/schools e.t.c, in our daily contact with men/women, are countless masses of human souls are like gold covered with dross. And we, if we but had the fire of the Holy Spirit, would burnish them into jewels of the Kingdom of God!
Great Grace Brethren!!!