Gospel: John 14:15-21
Jesus said to his disciples: "If you love me, you will
keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another
Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
accept, because it neither sees nor knows him. But you know him, because he
remains with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come
to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me,
because I live and you will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my
Father and you are in me and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and observes
them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and
I will love him and reveal myself to him."
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Reflection:
A husband would always tell his wife that he loves her, his
show of love does not end by his vocal profession. He follows it up by actual
acts of love, say for example by helping her with household chores and by being
faithful to their Marriage vows.
As the husband
continues to do these noble acts their love and marriage would surely flourish.
And it would perpetually be blessed by the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
In this Sunday’s gospel Jesus promised the disciples an
advocate who would always be there for them; to help and guide them. But for
the advocate to be with them, the disciples must show their love for God by
propagating His teachings and by living HIS commandments. Therefore there is no
fulfillment of the promise of the advocate without the disciples’ obedience and
actual acts of love.
It’s very easy for us to profess that we love Jesus, but do
we really love Jesus? For example we say we love Jesus yet we betray the
sanctity of the sacrament of marriage. Or we choose to turn a blind eye to
someone in need of our help. Where is
then the concrete action of our love for God?
For our love for Jesus to grow and bear fruit we have to
nurture it with actual acts of love. We therefore have to be faithful to our
Matrimonial vows, we have to share Jesus and we have to become a living Jesus
for others so that through us they will know Jesus.
As we do these noble acts we allow the Holy Spirit to come
to us and we allow it to move freely within us. We therefore do good all the
time and this we do not do by our singular actions. We do this because the Holy
Spirit is prompting us to do it.
Do you want to feel the living presence of the Holy Spirit
within you? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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