“And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always.” (John 14:16)

The major theme for this 6^th Sunday of Easter focuses on the early apostolic preaching of the Good News of salvation to all, and on Jesus’ promises of sending the Holy Spirit to us, His disciples, as our advocate and companion. We, the disciples, have received Christ’s mandate to preach the Gospel to the end of the world, need the assistance of the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Most Holy Trinity, to accomplish God’s will. He is fully God, almighty, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent, has willingness, living, can testify for us, and help us bear witness to Jesus Christ.

The Church teaches that the Holy Spirit is “The One whom the Father has sent into our hearts, the Spirit of his Son, is truly God. Consubstantial with the Father and the Son, the Spirit is inseparable from them, in both the inner life of the Trinity and his gift of love for the world. In adoring the Holy Trinity, life-giving, consubstantial, and indivisible, the Church's faith also professes the distinction of persons. When the Father sends his Word, he always sends his Breath. In their joint mission, the Son and the Holy Spirit are distinct but inseparable. To be sure, it is Christ who is seen, the visible image of the invisible God, but it is the Spirit who reveals him” (CCC #689).

God does not want us holding a relationship of Transaction but Transformation. Therefore, Dynamic Christian disciples are those who (1) BELIEVE, (2) GROW, (3) SERVE, (4) LOVE and (5) LEAD others to Jesus. Today’s topic invites us to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, to imitate and follow Jesus Christ more closely, to repent our sins, to exercise our Christian stewardship, to use our time, treasure and talents to love God above all and to love our neighbors as ourselves, participating in the works of mercy, to accomplish God’s will in our lives to glorify God.

How can we rely more on the Holy Spirit to continue the apostolic preaching of the Gospel, who gives meaning and purpose of all we do in Jesus’ name? 

Wishing everyone a blessed week in the Lord.