Fr Marco Lazzaron
t that time, Jesus said to his disciples: I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
We are still in the Last Supper. Jesus refers to everything that the apostles will be able to understand only after having experienced his death and resurrection, after having understood that it was necessary for Jesus to show to what extent God is available to man, going out to meet his enemies.
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
The Spirit speaks to us about God and about ourselves. He reveals to us who God is and who we are, with our strengths and weaknesses, but always children of God. The Spirit does not aim to guess the future, but tells us that our future is in God and with God. Believing this gives us to understand that we were not born by chance (nor just by the “will of the flesh”) and that we will not die by misfortune or because of fate. We were desired and we are loved; this gives us a future and peace today.
He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
The Spirit glorifies Jesus, revealing to us the glory of the one who knew how to love and give his life. It is not the glory of the powerful which is destined to end. It is a glory that does not end.
All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Here is the affirmation of the perfect union that exists in the Trinity. What does the Father have, which is also Jesus’s and which the Spirit declares to us? It is Love, it is the invitation and the ability to give life for love, which Jesus revealed to us through his passion, but which is the work of the whole Trinity. In fact, Jesus dies on the cross more than out of obedience to the Father, but out of communion with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, to God, who is, who was and who is to come.
This is what we proclaim at the Gospel acclamation. It is an acclamation of praise to the Most Holy Trinity. It is the sign that we understand that the glory that Jesus chooses is important and powerful than the one that the world proposes. It is the glory given to those who decide to serve others as God serves us.