Rom 4:13, 16-18
Lk 12:8-12
There is always this question about the meaning of blaspheming against the Holy Spirit and what does that entail, because Jesus said that such a thing cannot be forgiven.
For us, we believe that the Holy Spirit is one of the Persons of the Triune God and that He is sent by the Father and the Son into our hearts to lead our lives and to direct us in the truth.
But if we knowingly and constantly ignore the call to faith and outrightly suppress the truth within us, then we are obstinately rejecting the Holy Spirit, which is actually rejecting God Himself.
But this is not likely that we are absolutely that stubborn.
However, to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit is a more serious matter.
Because that would be to ascribe the working of the Holy Spirit and something holy to that of the working of the devil and the unholy.
Those who commit it persist in it even though they know what they are doing is not right at all.
It is like their eyes and hearts are so tightly closed to the goodness of divine power, so much so that the light of goodness had become darkness, and good had become evil.
Yet people like St Ignatius of Antioch have exposed the darkness of evil.
He stood up for love and goodness and truth, and for that he was thrown into the amphitheater and devoured by lions.
Yet his courage in witnessing for Christ and for love and truth lives on to this day.
May our faith gives us the courage to witness to God's truth and love.