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While Jesus is the definitive revelation of who God is, we continue to understand that revelation better and better through the work of the Holy Spirit in our minds and hearts.

Rev. Jude Winkler, O.F.M. Conv.

Holy Spirit Rising

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Receive the Holy Spirit, and then give it away in love. [...] To remain, see, to remain in the Holy Spirit, we have to give the Holy Spirit away as a gift.

Bishop Robert Barron (Hints of the Holy Spirit)

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It is the Holy Spirit Who is at Work in Every Prayer We Offer, by Elizabeth Wang

When the whole Church is consecrated in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and is in their possession indivisibly, what is to prevent [a] house of the Lord from being ascribed to the Father or to the Holy Spirit just as much as to the Son? [... And i]n fact it seems more fitting that a temple should be ascribed to the Holy Spirit than to any other member of the Trinity, if we pay careful attention to apostolic authority and the workings of the Holy Spirit Itself. To none of the three does the Apostle assign a special shrine except to the Holy Spirit, for he speaks neither of a shrine of the Father nor of the Son as he does of the Holy Spirit when he writes in the First Letter of the Corinthians: "But he who links himself with Christ is one with Him, spiritually" [6:17], and again, "Do you not know that your body is a shrine of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and the Spirit is God's gift to you? You belong not to yourselves" [6:19]. Everyone knows too that the divine benefits of the sacraments administered in the Church are ascribed particularly to the power of divine Grace, by which is meant the Holy Spirit. For by water and the Holy Spirit we are reborn in baptism, after which we first become a special temple for God; and in the sacrament of confirmation the sevenfold grace of the Holy Spirit is conferred on us whereby the temple of God is adorned and dedicated. Is it then surprising that we dedicate a material temple to the one to whom the Apostle has specially ascribed a spiritual one? To whom can a church be more fittingly consecrated than to the one to whose effective power all the benefits of the Church sacraments are particularly ascribed?

Peter Abelard (The History of My Calamities), trans. Betty Radice. Original Latin of the bolded emphases above shown below:

divinorum sacramenta beneficiorum que in Ecclesia fiunt operationi divine gratie, que Spiritus sanctus intelligitur [...] cuius persone rectius ecclesia esse dicitur, quam eius cuius operationi cuncta que in ecclesia ministrantur beneficia specialiter assignantur?

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Authentic love is the fruit of the Holy Spirit operating within you. So, yes, sometimes [the Spirit operates] in an extraordinary way […] but, in the ordinary —but, no, it's not really ordinary at all; I mean, Love, when it breaks out, is the most extraordinary thing— but when we really love, that's a sign that the Holy Spirit is operative in us.

Bishop Robert Barron (Hints of the Holy Spirit)

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A mosaic representing Pentecost on the ceiling of St. Louis Cathedral 

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[T]he Holy Spirit by Its coming has Its own feast of Pentecost, just as the Son, by His, has the feast of the Nativity; for the Holy Spirit claims Its own feast by coming among the disciples just as the Son came into the world.

Peter Abelard (The History of My Calamities), trans. Betty Radice.

Original Latin: cum ipse quoque Spiritus ex adventu suo propriam habeat Pentecostes sollempnitatem, sicut Filius ex suo natalis sui festivitatem; sicut enim Filius missus in mundum, ita et Spiritus sanctus in discipulos propriam sibi vendicat sollempnitatem.

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How do you get back to relationship/ talking to God when you know you’ve been distant and living without working on the relationship? How do you build the habit of talking and listening again, just involving God intentionally in your daily life? How do you start that again when it seems you just keep making the same mistake over and over and have to keep having the same apologies all the time and never get anywhere further in the relationship? How do start again and not slide back?

Well, I'll start with the last questions.

The bad news, anon? We should "expect temptation to the last breath." The vast majority of us are going to be struggling with the same sins or making the same mistake over and over and making the same apologies.

But, some good news: our relationship with God is grounded in God's faithfulness, not ours. I'm not saying that you should put no effort in, to be clear, but ultimately God wants to spend eternity with you, and as long as you genuinely want the same, He will work with what He's got. Pope Francis says, "Each time a person, performing the last examination of conscience of his life, discovers that his shortcomings far exceed his good deeds, he must not feel discouraged, but entrust himself to God's mercy" (x). You should probably just read that whole general audience that quote comes from; it's not very long. It's about the murderer on the Cross next to Jesus, whose only 'good deed,' so to speak, was entrusting himself to Jesus. God is willing to work with something as little as that.

As for the rest of what you said, about the distance, I would start again, but slowly. If you feel like you focus too much on your sins and personal failings in your dialogue with God (and if that's functioning as a 'block,' of sorts), this is what I recommend instead:

In the morning, talk to God about what your plans are for the day, and ask Him to accompany you through them.

If you have a break during the day, take a minute and pray for your needs or the needs of others.

In the evening, find at least three things to be grateful for, and thank God for them.

Confession of sin should be part of prayer, but if you find that this is the only form of prayer you're doing, to the detriment of your prayer life, you gotta break that loop. The above is just a suggestion to start with, but if you have a priest or spiritual advisor you trust, I would bring your concerns to them and listen to whatever they say instead.

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And what kind of Church would we have should these ["Traditionalist" Catholics] ever get their way? It would be a Church that teaches most people are likely going to Hell, and that you probably commit a mortal sin twice every day. This is what really sticks out for me in all of the trad agitations. Nothing gets their dander up more than the insinuation that most, or perhaps all (gasp!), will make it to Heaven. They want ever-more Hell cowbell and when you accuse them of that it greatly upsets them and they clutch their pearls all verklempt that you would even suggest such a thing. But then mention the name "Balthasar" and it is as if some primordial Pavlovian urge comes over them and they get very angry and tell you that Balthasar is a heretic and his views on hell encourage laxity since we all know that the moral good will only be done if we are threatened by the God of love with eternally broken legs should we die in sin. This is why they also hate Bishop Barron whose closeness to the dreaded Balthasarian contagion threatens to rob us of our motivation to evangelize, except that —oops— Bishop Barron has built the largest evangelizing platform in the modern Church. But he remains their bête noir, their white whale, and this too is what they call in poker a "tell" since they can deny that they have a fixation on a Massa Damnata view of hell all they want in theory, but when it comes to their favored theological targets it is always those who espouse a more expansive view of salvation that they most despise.

Larry Chapp (Vatican II and Why Traditionalism is a Dead End). Italics original, bolded emphases added.

Bishop Robert Barron prays at World Youth Day (x)

When you preach the real Christ, not a watered down Christ, it lights a fire in people.

- Bishop Robert Barron, on August 2nd, 2023, at World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal.

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#All it needs is the 80 years of other chazalim just getting irrationally heated about what rashi means and their students responsa

me drowning in a lake while my friend, 11th century french rabbi and prolific scriptural commentator Schlomo "Rashi" Yitzchaki (zy"a) stands nearby: help im drowing help me rashi

Schlomo "Rashi" Yitzchaki (zy"a): "drowing" is likely a scribal error for "drowning." "im drow[n]ing" is to say: my lungs have become filled with water, and i am struggling to breathe. "help" once followed by "help me" a second time: the first [help] is directed to the Holy One, blessed be He, and means: "may He help us by swiftly delivering the World to Come;" the second (i.e., "help me") is to invoke direct assistance in this world, spoken as if to a personal friend. the meaning of "rashi" here is unclear.

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~ mignonettetakespictures on ig

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The Virgin Mary by José Luis Castillo

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God be in my head, and in my understanding; God be in mine eyes, and in my looking; God be in my mouth, and in my speaking; God be in my heart, and in my thinking; God be at mine end, and at my departing.

Sarum Primer

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Faceless Poverty, by Sarojit Mazumdar

For it is written in the Law, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." And behold, many of your brethren, sons of Abraham, are clad in filth, dying of hunger; and your house is full of many good things, and nothing at all goes out into them . . . It is easier for a camel to enter in by the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.

a variant saying of Jesus found in "a certain Gospel, which is called according to the Hebrews," that is quoted in the Latin translation of Origen of Alexandria's Commentary on Matthew (15.14). Original Latin:

quoniam scriptum est in lege, «Diliges proximum tuum sicut te ipsum.» et ecce, multi fratres tui filii Abrahae amicti sunt stercore, morientes prae fame, et domus tua plena est multis bonis, et non egreditur omnino aliquid ex ea ad eos . . . facilius est camelum intrare per foramen acus quam divitem in regnum caelorum.

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“If you would remember the presence of your guardian angel and those of your neighbors, you would avoid many of the foolish things you let slip into your conversation.” 

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Devotions” from The Way, #564

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the Annunciation to the Shepherds, from Bjäresjö Church, Sweden.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and good will toward men.

the Gospel According to Luke (2:14)

May God put the angel of peace between us. Go gcuire Dia aingeal na síochána eadrainn.

an Irish prayer for the Sign of Peace at Mass, trans. Desmond Forristal