In reviewing the week let the springs of strength and grace from which our daily spiritual life receives its nourishment pass before our eyes once more and gratefully ponder the abundance of these riches...

In this twelfth week we have sought different places to open the source of power through which God seeks to let the Holy Spirit flow into us.  We will not be finished with this task until the end of life, for the Holy Spirit of God always remains beyond our ability to comprehend her riches.  And yet we feel that this spirit gives light and understanding and leads us into the deepest mystery of God.  The Spirit sends power and strength and makes possible what would be impossible without her.  The Spirit has a great goal in sight:  to form us more and more into the image of Jesus Christ.  Thereby we are created into that which God had originally intended for us: to be a likeness of God (Genesis 1:27; II Cor. 5:17).  The Apostle Paul writes, "For those whom God fore knew God also predestined to be conformed to the image of God's Son in order that he might be the first born among many brothers and sisters" (Romans 8:29).

The last week of the Fourth Section has prepared us for the Fifth and final Section in which the material goes ever deeper concerning becoming like Christ and being incorporated into his suffering and dying and into his new, everlasting life.