Reflection
“If you love me you will keep my commandments. I shall ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, that Spirit of truth that (a sinful) world can never receive. But you know him, because he is with you, he is in you.”
Soon we shall celebrate the Feast of Pentecost, we shall remember the manifestation of Christ’s promised Spirit of truth. In the uncertainty of our days may we surrender our lives to the hope that accompanied that promise.
“On that day you will understand that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and show myself to him.”
For many Pentecost will come after a prolonged period of social isolation, an isolation that has cruelly demonstrated our need to be held in life-giving communion. Through the Holy Spirit, and in the power of Christ’s resurrection, may we find healing in the Father’s love.
