Holy Breath

We wear masks to keep our breath from carrying the virus to others. 
When I was a young priest we breathed on a baby that we were baptizing and said "Receive the Holy Spirit. 
The evening of his resurrection Christ appears to his disciples in the upper room (2019-23.) He breathes on them and says "Receive the Holy Breath."  The word used in Greek by the author of the Gospel means also, "spirit," "air," and "wind." 
The Hebrew word "ruah" has the same four meanings.  At the beginning of the Book of Genesis the "ruah" of God blew over the chaotic waters.  In Genesis 2:7 "Yahweh God shaped man from the soil of the ground and blew the breath of life into his nostrils, and man became a living being." 
The Resurrection of Christ is the beginning of a New Creation that spans from the beginning to the end of the cosmos.  With the Breath of Christ within them the disciples continued that New Creation.  We take off our masks of indifference and let the Holy Breath spread out to our world carrying love and joy and justice.