6th week in Easter Time, Wednesday – 25th May 2022 — Gospel: Jn 16,12-15
Creative Revealer
Jesus has taught his disciples all that they are to know and understand about the present time. Yet, He reassures them that they will come to a fuller knowledge when the Spirit of truth comes upon them. This is a knowledge of understanding God’s plan and establishing a relationship with God that creates a never-ending bond between the disciples and triune God. This Spirit plays a creative role. The Spirit will pick up where Jesus leaves off and will add to their ability to understand and spread the seeds of faith which Jesus has nurtured in them. The Spirit is just a further revelation of the God who is not fully known except through a continued process of divine self-revelation, which assures permanency of God’s presence. Also, the Spirit will only explicate and make clearer what Jesus has already said. He will not give a new teaching. The Spirit will also declare “the things that are to come”. He is creative and enables the words of Jesus to move forward from its moment in history to the present life of the Church. Thus, the Spirit gives new meanings to the teachings of Jesus according to the circumstances of the faith communities.
