He will testify to me

MONDAY 18 MAY (Jn 15,26-16,4)

The testimony that the Holy Spirit gives to Christ Jesus is twofold. Jesus testifies what he has seen in heaven and what he has seen on earth. His testimony is very pure truth, because in eternity and in time he has always been and he is always with Jesus. The prologue is his testimony on Christ Jesus before creation, in creation and after incarnation: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him. But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision but of God. And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth. From his fullness we have all received, grace in place of grace, because while the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him. (Cf. Jn 1,1-18). Without the testimony of the Holy Spirit no one might know Christ in his invisible mystery. Without knowledge of the invisible mystery, not even the visible mystery can ever be known. It is the reason why those who are without the Spirit of the Lord are also without the knowledge of Jesus. Without the Holy Spirit every Word of the Lord is reduced to a lie, a falsehood. Today’s drama is just that.

“When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that 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. “I did not tell you this from the beginning, because I was with you.

How does the Holy Spirit testify to the visible mystery of Christ Jesus? First of all by illuminating the minds so that they understand what is written about him in the Law, in the Prophets, in the Psalms and throughout the Old and New Testaments. The Church always lives on this comfort. It is for him that the flame of truth always burns from the bush of Scripture, without ever consuming the Sacred Text, indeed always drawing full truth from it. And then strengthening the heart for an ever greater obedience to the will of Christ Jesus. St. Paul in the Letter to the Ephesians asks this to be always the disciple of Jesus in a full light: “Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power. Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil. For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens. Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground. So stand fast with your loins girded in truth, clothed with righteousness as a breastplate, and your feet shod in readiness for the gospel of peace. In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all (the) flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. With all prayer and supplication, pray at every opportunity in the Spirit. To that end, be watchful with all perseverance and supplication for all the holy ones” (Eph 6,10-18). With this inner strength in the heart, the fruit of his piety, the Holy Spirit will give that necessary light so that the mystery of the Lord may always be luminous before his eyes and always pure to his mind. Nothing is known without the Holy Spirit. Nothing. Never.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints arrange that we never separate from the divine light of the Spirit.