Gospel: John
15:26—16:4a
Jesus said to his
disciples: “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the
Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me. And you
also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
“I have told you
this so that you may not fall away. They will expel you from the synagogues; in
fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering
worship to God. They will do this because they have not known either the Father
or me. I have told you this so that when their hour comes you may remember that
I told you.”
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Reflection:
A man was trying
very hard to feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in his life. He would always
be murmuring, come Holy Spirit I need you, he would say this a couple of times
to no avail.
We will not be able
to feel the presence of the Holy Spirit by saying come Holy Spirit alone. We
must live our lives always attuned to the teachings of Jesus; we must live and
breathe the teachings of Jesus so to speak.
Then as we live and
breathe His teachings we would slowly but surely begin to feel the empowering
presence of the Advocate or the Holy Spirit. Let us always live the teachings
of Jesus. Let us never be afraid to share and live it because this is the only
means where we can truly discern the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit in our
lives.
In the gospel, Jesus
speaks to the disciples about the Advocate which is no other than the Holy Spirit.
Jesus will give it to them in His own time of choosing what they need to do is
to simply be faithful to Him and His teachings. This is what we need to do as
well for us to feel the presence of the Holy Spirit within us.
Therefore inviting
the Holy Spirit to come into our lives is not enough we first have to be
faithful to Jesus. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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