1Reflection for May 12 Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter: John 16:12-15

Gospel: John 16:12-15

Jesus said to his disciples: “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. 

 He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.”

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Reflection:

What is the impediment that prevents us from discerning the presence of the Holy Spirit? It’s when we live our lives away from the teachings of the church. It’s when we create our own rules to follow instead of following the rules of the church. It’s when we follow the teachings of the church based on our convenience. 

 For example, the obligation of going to Holy Mass every Sunday. Many of us do not follow this Sunday obligation we instead follow our own self-created rule/s. This is the reason why we just go to Holy Mass when we feel like going. This kind of behavior prevents us from discerning the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic many of us are not able to go to Holy Mass in lieu of this we attend online Holy Mass. But many don’t have access with internet perhaps the best that we can do is to pray the Holy Rosary or we can read the Holy Mass reading for the day which we can easily find in the bible.  

The Holy Spirit acts as our honest and true counsellor who will never dare tell us to distort the truth. In fact it will tell us to speak the truth no matter who gets hurt. It will forever counsel us to do good and not to do evil to extend love and forgiveness instead of hatred and unforgiveness.  

This is the reason why we are bothered by our conscience whenever we tell lies and do wrong. And this feeling of guilt does not fade away until we tell the truth and correct the wrong/s that we have committed. 

Do you have an awareness of the presence of the Holy Spirit in your life? Live your faith and be faithful to its teachings for this is the beginning of your journey with God the Holy Spirit.  – Marino J. Dasmarinas