The main act of the Feasts of the Divine consisted of the symbolic crowning of an Emperor, which should not be confused with traditional emperors, such as those of the Roman Empire or Carolingian (by Charlemagne). Marking this fundamental difference well, the crowned one at parties is an innocent boy, or a poor person.
Preferably, an innocent poor boy from the people. According to António Quadros:
“The Empire of the Holy Spirit, as announced in the mystery of the Coronation, is not, in short, an empire from the outside in, a sociocratic or autocratic empire, but an empire from the inside out (…) an empire (…) which is the conversion of Christians, also as citizens and social men, to the light, the truth and the life that came to bring Jesus Christ in his example and passion and that the Holy Spirit transmits to those who invoke him with a pure heart, as well as, at the same time, the conversion of the whole world into their variety of beliefs of cultures and civilizations, without losing their.”
“The Fifth Empire is an empire (…) that cannot be achieved by simple coronation, inheritance, law, dictatorship or party, by oligarchic groups, political classes or voluntarist revolutionaries. It is not the king who is crowned emperor, not even the local authority or bishop or the parish priest. It is the poor, it is the child, it is what is visibly lacking in the fullness of being human due to social status or age.”
At the coronation, the boy was surrounded by five characters, representing the Universal Man, or human society as a whole: an old man, an old woman, a new man, a new woman and another boy, who would be crowned in the year following.
The crown, closed and topped by a dove, is the traditional symbol of the Divine Paraclete. The Coronation ritual and the festivities indicate, according to some interpretations, the subordination of ideas, classes and forces in a fidelity not to the institutional Church, but to the Eternal Gospel.
According to some authors, the crowned person is, so to speak, the prophet of the Empire of the Holy Spirit of tomorrow. For Quadros, “(in it) the blessed are represented, that is, the poor in spirit, the weeping, the meek, the hungry and thirsty for justice, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, the one who suffer persecution for the sake of justice, the insulted and slandered, who was exalted by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.”
Other authors consider that the crowned boy symbolizes the Holy Spirit (of Christ) who returns to be and live as a child, as Jesus said: "if you are not a child you will not enter my Father's kingdom".
Preferably, an innocent poor boy from the people. According to António Quadros:
“The Empire of the Holy Spirit, as announced in the mystery of the Coronation, is not, in short, an empire from the outside in, a sociocratic or autocratic empire, but an empire from the inside out (…) an empire (…) which is the conversion of Christians, also as citizens and social men, to the light, the truth and the life that came to bring Jesus Christ in his example and passion and that the Holy Spirit transmits to those who invoke him with a pure heart, as well as, at the same time, the conversion of the whole world into their variety of beliefs of cultures and civilizations, without losing their.”
“The Fifth Empire is an empire (…) that cannot be achieved by simple coronation, inheritance, law, dictatorship or party, by oligarchic groups, political classes or voluntarist revolutionaries. It is not the king who is crowned emperor, not even the local authority or bishop or the parish priest. It is the poor, it is the child, it is what is visibly lacking in the fullness of being human due to social status or age.”
At the coronation, the boy was surrounded by five characters, representing the Universal Man, or human society as a whole: an old man, an old woman, a new man, a new woman and another boy, who would be crowned in the year following.
The crown, closed and topped by a dove, is the traditional symbol of the Divine Paraclete. The Coronation ritual and the festivities indicate, according to some interpretations, the subordination of ideas, classes and forces in a fidelity not to the institutional Church, but to the Eternal Gospel.
According to some authors, the crowned person is, so to speak, the prophet of the Empire of the Holy Spirit of tomorrow. For Quadros, “(in it) the blessed are represented, that is, the poor in spirit, the weeping, the meek, the hungry and thirsty for justice, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, the one who suffer persecution for the sake of justice, the insulted and slandered, who was exalted by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.”
Other authors consider that the crowned boy symbolizes the Holy Spirit (of Christ) who returns to be and live as a child, as Jesus said: "if you are not a child you will not enter my Father's kingdom".
Source: Festa do Divino Espírito Santo