Gospel: May 8, 2024
(Wednesday)
6th Week of Easter
Psalter: Week 2 / (White)
Responsorial Psalm: Ps 148: 1-2, 11-12, 13, 14
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
1st Reading: Acts 17: 15, 22-18: 1
Gospel: John 16: 12-15
I still have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear them now. When he, the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into the whole truth.
For he will not speak of his own authority, but will speak what he hears, and he will tell you about the things which are to come. He will take what is mine and make it known to you; in doing this, he will glorify me. All that the Father has is mine; for this reason, I told you that the Spirit will take what is mine, and make it known to you.
Reflection:“Triune God”
Jesus explained to his disciples that the Spirit of truth would come and would guide the disciples into all truth. Jesus further explained to his disciples that the Spirit of truth would not be speaking of his own authority but of what he hears. Jesus did not also speak of his own authority and he would only say and do what the Father commanded him to say and do (cf. Jn. 14:10). Today’s Gospel emphasizes that the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, would be taking from whatever is of Jesus. Moreover, Jesus also said that all that the Father has is his. Thus, the relationship existing between the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit is a self-giving relationship. We, Christians, worship a Triune God, the one God in three divine Persons. Hence, every relationship on earth should be patterned in the self-giving relationship of the three divine Persons. When we become selfish rather than selfless, self-referent rather than self-giving, we actually lack certain knowledge of the Triune God we profess to worship. Self-entitlement is a concrete example of our failure to understand the Triune God we believe in.
