He will give you another Advocate

At 2,1-11; Ps 103; Rm 8,8-17; Jn 14,15-16.23b-26
9 JUNE

Christ Jesus is full of the Holy Spirit. He placed himself on him in all his fullness. Every part of his body, his spirit and his soul was under his full rule. What Isaiah had prophesied, Jesus attests that it was punctually accomplished.

But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, A spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the Lord, and his delight shall be the fear of the Lord. Not by appearance shall he judge, nor by hearsay shall he decide, But he shall judge the poor with justice, and decide aright for the land’s afflicted (Is 11,1-5). He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.” Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing” (Lk 4,16-21). 

Not only was the Holy Spirit given by the Father to Christ Jesus, he is given by the Father to every man who wants to become the body of his Son, for Christ. The first work of the Holy Spirit is the formation of the body of Christ. One becomes the body of Christ, he grows as the body of Christ and is moved and guided by the Holy Spirit. For which mission? To form the body of Christ. The Spirit has been given to Christ to form the body of Christ, his Church. The Spirit is given to every other man to become the true body of Christ and to form the body of Christ, through the proclamation of the Gospel in view of conversion and baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. If this mission is not lived moment by moment, the whole work of the Holy Spirit is made vain. It is exposed to uselessness and futility. He is invoked for the things of the earth, while his mission is to transform flesh into spirit in the body of Christ.

From our body, in the body of Christ, growing as the body of Christ in holiness, the Spirit of the Lord becomes the Spirit of conviction and of attraction to Christ. It is not the Christian the one who convinces, touches the heart, converts and sanctifies. It is the Spirit of God that from his body, if he is the true body of Christ, enters the heart of the other and shows him the beauty of Christ and the need to be converted to him, to become his body to have eternal life. This is the miracle of Pentecost. Peter speaks and the Spirit of Peter attracts to Christ.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other apostles, “What are we to do, my brothers?” Peter (said) to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit. For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call.” He testified with many other arguments, and was exhorting them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were added that day (At 2,37-41).

Today, the body of Christ Jesus is undergoing one of the most devastating bleeding. Many members of his body are already in necrosis. They are not in death. They are rotting. Having detached themselves from the Gospel of Christ, they detached themselves from the body of Christ, they lost their supernatural principle of life which is the Holy Spirit. They are rotting.

“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 Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me.

It is not our prayer that sends the Holy Spirit upon us. It is the prayer of Christ Jesus. However, it is conditioned to the perennial observance of his commandments.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that we observe the commandments and Jesus will pray for us.