HE WILL TAKE FROM WHAT IS MINE

At 2,1-11; Ps 103; Gal 5,16-25; Jn 15,26-27; 16,12-15
20 MAY – SUNDAY OF PENTECOST – S
The Holy Spirit is the Eternal Communion between the Father and the Son. He takes all that belongs to the Father and gives it to the Son. He takes all that is of the Son and gives it to the Father. We know by revelation that everything that belongs to the Father and the whole Father from the Holy Spirit has been given to Christ. Christ was constituted the only mediator between the Father and the entire universe. He is the only mediator in creation, in redemption, in salvation, in grace, in truth and in the gift of eternal life.

At that time Jesus said in reply, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him. “Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light” (Mt 11,25-30).

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).

There is no communion in the universe except in the Holy Spirit. For him, the whole Father has given himself to the Son. For him all the Son gives himself to the Father. Now the Father has established that all Christ, in whom He is entirely, is given to every man. This gift can only be accomplished in the communion of the Holy Spirit. The Father in Jesus and for him gives the Holy Spirit to the disciples. The Holy Spirit creates the communion between Christ and the disciples. He takes Christ and places him in the heart of the disciples, so that he lives entirely in them, in the same way that the whole Father lives in Christ. Everything is accomplished in the communion of the Spirit.

“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 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.

Then, it is right that we ask ourselves: if the Holy Spirit gives us all of Christ, in the same way that he gave to Christ the whole Father, why are we not the life of Christ on earth? We know that Jesus grew in wisdom and grace. If we do not grow in obedience to the Word of Jesus, we are always “small containers”. How much light, truth, life and will of Christ the Lord might he pour into us, if we are even containers full of holes because of our vices and sins? Even if the Holy Spirit poured into our hearts all of Christ Jesus with every power of grace and truth, he would remain in us only for a moment. If we want the Holy Spirit to increase the gift of Christ, we must begin with a real struggle for the eradication of all disobedience and vice. For every vice that is removed from the mind, from the heart and from the body, our capacities to contain Christ the Lord increase. Jesus contained the whole Father because he was most holy.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us grow in every virtue.