Friday
of the Sixth
Week
of Easter
May 22nd
READING: John 16: 12-15
“I still have many things to
say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he
will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will
speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to
come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to
you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take
what is mine and declare it to you.”
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New Revised Standard Version
Bible: Anglicised Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993, 1995 the Division
of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the
United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
REFLECTION
There
is great tenderness in Jesus’ concern for the weight of grief that is about to
descend on the shoulders of his followers. The sensitivity to his followers’ impending sorrow leads Jesus to home in on the Paraclete’s role as Comforter and
guide … she “will guide us into all truth.”
The
truth hinted at here is the truth of resurrection hope, transcending the Cross,
transcending the suffering that some Jesus followers will experience,
transcending the vicissitudes of human existence. “All that the Father has is
mine.” The Father-Creator, Abba, gives life transcending all death, all
suffering, all hopelessness. This hope is the gift that the Spirit will manifest
whenever we seek her giving. Hers is the hope-filled perspective that soars above mere mortality.
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