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 God 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.
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.
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 that we
have committed.
Do you have an awareness of the presence of the Holy
Spirit in your life? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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