May 10, 2026 • 15 mins
EASTER 6 PREPARES US TO APPRECIATE THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:10):
The Lord be with you.
A reading from the Holy Gospelaccording to John.
Jesus said to his disciples, Ifyou love me, you will keep my
commandments, and I will ask theFather, and He will give you
another advocate to be with youalways, the Spirit of Truth,
(00:36):
whom the world cannot accept,because it neither sees him nor
knows him.
But you know him because heremains with you and will remain
in you.
I will not leave you orphans.
I will come to you.
In a little while the world willno longer see me, but you will
(00:58):
see me because I live and youwill live.
On that day you will realizethat I am in my Father, and you
are in me, and I am in you.
Whoever has my commandments andobserves them is the person who
loves me.
(01:19):
Whoever loves me will be lovedby my Father, and I will love
you and reveal myself to you.
The gospel of the Lord JesusChrist.
Not essential, but a few littlenotes about the scriptures
(01:44):
tonight.
In the first reading, the wordwas being carried on.
Philip was bringing it toanother area.
And it opens up with thissection, Acts eight.
Philip went down to the city ofSamaria and proclaimed Christ to
(02:06):
them.
Little technical glitch, but notreally.
See, Jerusalem was the center ofthe faith of the Jewish people.
So although Jerusalem may havebeen north or south, you always
(02:26):
went up to Jerusalem.
Here they went down from thecity of Samaria because it was
above them, but it was the keyplace.
Everyone goes to Jerusalem.
(02:46):
Everything starts there.
It's a very minor but veryrelevant theological and
geographic fact.
That Jerusalem, the place of thetemple, Mount Zion, that we sing
about all year long in all thePsalms, is very important.
(03:08):
There's more.
When Jesus teaches this greatmystery tonight, and it's
outstanding what he's saying.
It's located in very mild words,but it's outstanding.
(03:29):
He said, If you love me, you'llkeep my commandments.
And I will be in you, my fatherwill be in you, and you'll be in
me.
All together.
That is the heart of the promisethat Jesus gives us today in the
scriptures.
(03:49):
In Peter's letter, he'sencouraging us to always do
good, always proclaim our faith,and if somebody gets on your
nerves because you're doing whatis good, too bad.
That's the way it's supposed tobe.
Because your mission, ourmission as Christians, is to
(04:12):
always do good and reflect Jesusin our world and in our lives.
And if someone does not acceptJesus, we pray for them, we
don't destroy them, but we putthem in their place.
And if they're blaming us fordoing something Catholic because
(04:32):
we're Catholics, we praise theLord.
We're proud of it.
I think there'll be anannouncement about St.
Anthony's Feast here at theparish next month.
And I know from last year andthe year before, the procession
of the St.
Anthony statue and community upand down the streets is
(04:53):
something outstanding andbeautiful.
We're meant to do that.
We're meant to bring our fate tothe streets.
And if there might be people whodon't understand, good question.
We can answer them.
Anyone would.
Any one of us could answer whatwe're doing.
(05:14):
We're celebrating this poorsaint, the saint of the poor,
and blessing his bread andgiving it to people.
And we're doing that asCatholics because we believe.
The scriptures tell us don'tgive me this half-belief and
(05:35):
half in, half out.
We should live as if we arebelievers in Jesus Christ.
He confirms that in thescriptures today, in the Gospel
of John, when he promises usthis outstanding gift, the gift
(05:57):
he promises us is his spirit.
And as he's saying this, he'ssaying, I am in the Father, and
the Father is in me, so we arepromising our spirit to you.
That's not just religioushogwash.
(06:21):
That is such a central featureof our faith that Jesus Christ
gave us his own spirit.
And in a few weeks on Pentecost,we celebrate that historically.
And this piece from the gospelcomes from the night of the Last
(06:43):
Supper.
But he's promising us somethingthat is outstanding.
You and I have God's Spiritwithin us.
You and I share the Holy Spiritof God.
(07:04):
If you don't pray to the HolySpirit, you're not going to know
you have the Holy Spirit.
Reminder, we've got to speak tothe Holy Spirit.
We're Catholics, we come tochurch, we stick our fingers in
the holy water, and we make thebenediction.
That's something to be said tothe world.
(07:28):
That when we come into thisspace, we are accessing the
power of God as Father, Son, andHoly Spirit.
When we listen to the gospel andremember Jesus' words and his
outstanding gift to us, we haveto realize this is not just an
(07:55):
inane promise, something you saybecause you're going to church.
This is God's own Son telling usJesus, he is sending us and
giving us his own spirit.
Now, put it in our language.
(08:16):
Say you love someone, reallylove someone.
New love, old love, doesn'tmatter.
You really love someone, and heor she is not necessarily with
you, but you know you love himor her, and you you feel that
wherever he is, wherever she is.
Like now we see a lot of kidsgoing off to college and so on,
and their parents' love will gowith them.
(08:38):
But all of us, we have someonewho loves us or did love us, and
their spirit is with us.
And we can think about thatperson cognitively.
God gave us his own spirit to usindividually and as a church to
(09:01):
always speak to him, talk tohim.
Not text, not phone, not email.
Stop and talk to him.
Sometimes out loud, sometimes inthe quiet of our hearts.
(09:23):
This is what Jesus is promisingus tonight.
That God's own spirit is withevery one of us.
And what are we supposed to dowith that spirit?
Well, he calls them the spiritof truth.
So right off the bat, it's God'sHoly Spirit of truth.
Now we go to the scriptures andwe put flesh on the letters that
(09:46):
we just read.
We put power behind them.
So when Philip goes down toSamaria to proclaim Christ,
that's a model of what we're todo as Christians.
We celebrated a few weeks ago,this is the sixth Sunday of
(10:08):
Easter, that happened thousand,two thousand years ago.
But the reality is theresurrection of Jesus Christ is
now, is with us.
Jesus is with us right now inthis church.
(10:30):
And his Holy Spirit goes with uswherever we go.
If we're going out to eat lateron, if we're going to home, if
we're going to go visit, theHoly Spirit of Jesus is with us.
And the Holy Spirit of Jesus isthe Holy Spirit of God the
Father as well.
Jesus made that very clear.
I'm in you, the Father's in you,the Spirit is in you, and I am
(10:53):
in the Father.
It's a little complex, but thisis God speaking God's language
to us, or human, who need it.
So to carry on the missionarywork of John and Peter didn't
stop with the apostles, it goeson with us.
(11:15):
Where you and I go, the HolySpirit goes.
And when you and I talk, andwhen you and I pray, and when
you and I get into discussionwith our family and friends, the
Holy Spirit is with us.
And if we're talking to abaptized Christian, the Holy
(11:39):
Spirit remains with that personas well.
So what does that mean?
Respect, at least loveconstantly.
Proclamation of the faith?
Always.
Because we're not just talking,we're revealing what's in us.
(12:06):
God's power, God's Jesus usedthe word advocate.
An advocate, just think about itfrom the Latin, is someone that
walks alongside you.
An advocate, and the Italianshave it avocado, an attorney,
(12:30):
someone who speaks for you.
So God's own attorney, theadvocate of God the Father, is
with you always, with us.
I mean, be clear, I'm speakingto all of us, not just you.
The advocate of God the Fatheris with us always, giving us the
(12:51):
grace when we're weak, giving usthe strength when we're lost, to
speak on behalf of God, to speakand live on behalf of God.
So our actions, just like theactions of the apostles, reflect
God.
(13:12):
So our attitude, just like theattitude of Jesus Himself at the
Last Supper, reflects God andhis love for his disciples.
This is Jesus' great bigpowerful gift to us.
Think about it.
(13:34):
Each one of us has God's HolySpirit within us.
Our thoughts, our psychology,our minds, our behaviors.
As we leave here, the HolySpirit goes with us.
(13:57):
And we have such promise andsuch hope.
But the scriptures alreadyaddress that.
If you get in conflict becauseof your faith in Jesus Christ,
praise God.
Don't deny him, praise him.
All the more reason you shouldgive praise to God because
(14:19):
you're doing what is right.
The scriptures are ourinvitation to the great
commandments of Jesus.
And he really wants us to loveone another.
He really wants us to respectand love each other.
(14:42):
And he says it's a two-waystreet.
If we love him, his father willlove us, and we will reveal our
love in every one of you.
Sixth Sunday of Easter, doesn'tmatter.
(15:03):
We're celebrating the risen Lordtoday and every day.
The Lord be with you.
A reading from the Holy Gospelaccording to John.
Jesus said to his disciples, Ifyou love me, you will keep my
commandments, and I will ask theFather, and He will give you
another advocate to be with youalways, the Spirit of Truth,
(00:36):
whom the world cannot accept,because it neither sees him nor
knows him.
But you know him because heremains with you and will remain
in you.
I will not leave you orphans.
I will come to you.
In a little while the world willno longer see me, but you will
(00:58):
see me because I live and youwill live.
On that day you will realizethat I am in my Father, and you
are in me, and I am in you.
Whoever has my commandments andobserves them is the person who
loves me.
(01:19):
Whoever loves me will be lovedby my Father, and I will love
you and reveal myself to you.
The gospel of the Lord JesusChrist.
Not essential, but a few littlenotes about the scriptures
(01:44):
tonight.
In the first reading, the wordwas being carried on.
Philip was bringing it toanother area.
And it opens up with thissection, Acts eight.
Philip went down to the city ofSamaria and proclaimed Christ to
(02:06):
them.
Little technical glitch, but notreally.
See, Jerusalem was the center ofthe faith of the Jewish people.
So although Jerusalem may havebeen north or south, you always
(02:26):
went up to Jerusalem.
Here they went down from thecity of Samaria because it was
above them, but it was the keyplace.
Everyone goes to Jerusalem.
(02:46):
Everything starts there.
It's a very minor but veryrelevant theological and
geographic fact.
That Jerusalem, the place of thetemple, Mount Zion, that we sing
about all year long in all thePsalms, is very important.
(03:08):
There's more.
When Jesus teaches this greatmystery tonight, and it's
outstanding what he's saying.
It's located in very mild words,but it's outstanding.
(03:29):
He said, If you love me, you'llkeep my commandments.
And I will be in you, my fatherwill be in you, and you'll be in
me.
All together.
That is the heart of the promisethat Jesus gives us today in the
scriptures.
(03:49):
In Peter's letter, he'sencouraging us to always do
good, always proclaim our faith,and if somebody gets on your
nerves because you're doing whatis good, too bad.
That's the way it's supposed tobe.
Because your mission, ourmission as Christians, is to
(04:12):
always do good and reflect Jesusin our world and in our lives.
And if someone does not acceptJesus, we pray for them, we
don't destroy them, but we putthem in their place.
And if they're blaming us fordoing something Catholic because
(04:32):
we're Catholics, we praise theLord.
We're proud of it.
I think there'll be anannouncement about St.
Anthony's Feast here at theparish next month.
And I know from last year andthe year before, the procession
of the St.
Anthony statue and community upand down the streets is
(04:53):
something outstanding andbeautiful.
We're meant to do that.
We're meant to bring our fate tothe streets.
And if there might be people whodon't understand, good question.
We can answer them.
Anyone would.
Any one of us could answer whatwe're doing.
(05:14):
We're celebrating this poorsaint, the saint of the poor,
and blessing his bread andgiving it to people.
And we're doing that asCatholics because we believe.
The scriptures tell us don'tgive me this half-belief and
(05:35):
half in, half out.
We should live as if we arebelievers in Jesus Christ.
He confirms that in thescriptures today, in the Gospel
of John, when he promises usthis outstanding gift, the gift
(05:57):
he promises us is his spirit.
And as he's saying this, he'ssaying, I am in the Father, and
the Father is in me, so we arepromising our spirit to you.
That's not just religioushogwash.
(06:21):
That is such a central featureof our faith that Jesus Christ
gave us his own spirit.
And in a few weeks on Pentecost,we celebrate that historically.
And this piece from the gospelcomes from the night of the Last
(06:43):
Supper.
But he's promising us somethingthat is outstanding.
You and I have God's Spiritwithin us.
You and I share the Holy Spiritof God.
(07:04):
If you don't pray to the HolySpirit, you're not going to know
you have the Holy Spirit.
Reminder, we've got to speak tothe Holy Spirit.
We're Catholics, we come tochurch, we stick our fingers in
the holy water, and we make thebenediction.
That's something to be said tothe world.
(07:28):
That when we come into thisspace, we are accessing the
power of God as Father, Son, andHoly Spirit.
When we listen to the gospel andremember Jesus' words and his
outstanding gift to us, we haveto realize this is not just an
(07:55):
inane promise, something you saybecause you're going to church.
This is God's own Son telling usJesus, he is sending us and
giving us his own spirit.
Now, put it in our language.
(08:16):
Say you love someone, reallylove someone.
New love, old love, doesn'tmatter.
You really love someone, and heor she is not necessarily with
you, but you know you love himor her, and you you feel that
wherever he is, wherever she is.
Like now we see a lot of kidsgoing off to college and so on,
and their parents' love will gowith them.
(08:38):
But all of us, we have someonewho loves us or did love us, and
their spirit is with us.
And we can think about thatperson cognitively.
God gave us his own spirit to usindividually and as a church to
(09:01):
always speak to him, talk tohim.
Not text, not phone, not email.
Stop and talk to him.
Sometimes out loud, sometimes inthe quiet of our hearts.
(09:23):
This is what Jesus is promisingus tonight.
That God's own spirit is withevery one of us.
And what are we supposed to dowith that spirit?
Well, he calls them the spiritof truth.
So right off the bat, it's God'sHoly Spirit of truth.
Now we go to the scriptures andwe put flesh on the letters that
(09:46):
we just read.
We put power behind them.
So when Philip goes down toSamaria to proclaim Christ,
that's a model of what we're todo as Christians.
We celebrated a few weeks ago,this is the sixth Sunday of
(10:08):
Easter, that happened thousand,two thousand years ago.
But the reality is theresurrection of Jesus Christ is
now, is with us.
Jesus is with us right now inthis church.
(10:30):
And his Holy Spirit goes with uswherever we go.
If we're going out to eat lateron, if we're going to home, if
we're going to go visit, theHoly Spirit of Jesus is with us.
And the Holy Spirit of Jesus isthe Holy Spirit of God the
Father as well.
Jesus made that very clear.
I'm in you, the Father's in you,the Spirit is in you, and I am
(10:53):
in the Father.
It's a little complex, but thisis God speaking God's language
to us, or human, who need it.
So to carry on the missionarywork of John and Peter didn't
stop with the apostles, it goeson with us.
(11:15):
Where you and I go, the HolySpirit goes.
And when you and I talk, andwhen you and I pray, and when
you and I get into discussionwith our family and friends, the
Holy Spirit is with us.
And if we're talking to abaptized Christian, the Holy
(11:39):
Spirit remains with that personas well.
So what does that mean?
Respect, at least loveconstantly.
Proclamation of the faith?
Always.
Because we're not just talking,we're revealing what's in us.
(12:06):
God's power, God's Jesus usedthe word advocate.
An advocate, just think about itfrom the Latin, is someone that
walks alongside you.
An advocate, and the Italianshave it avocado, an attorney,
(12:30):
someone who speaks for you.
So God's own attorney, theadvocate of God the Father, is
with you always, with us.
I mean, be clear, I'm speakingto all of us, not just you.
The advocate of God the Fatheris with us always, giving us the
(12:51):
grace when we're weak, giving usthe strength when we're lost, to
speak on behalf of God, to speakand live on behalf of God.
So our actions, just like theactions of the apostles, reflect
God.
(13:12):
So our attitude, just like theattitude of Jesus Himself at the
Last Supper, reflects God andhis love for his disciples.
This is Jesus' great bigpowerful gift to us.
Think about it.
(13:34):
Each one of us has God's HolySpirit within us.
Our thoughts, our psychology,our minds, our behaviors.
As we leave here, the HolySpirit goes with us.
(13:57):
And we have such promise andsuch hope.
But the scriptures alreadyaddress that.
If you get in conflict becauseof your faith in Jesus Christ,
praise God.
Don't deny him, praise him.
All the more reason you shouldgive praise to God because
(14:19):
you're doing what is right.
The scriptures are ourinvitation to the great
commandments of Jesus.
And he really wants us to loveone another.
He really wants us to respectand love each other.
(14:42):
And he says it's a two-waystreet.
If we love him, his father willlove us, and we will reveal our
love in every one of you.
Sixth Sunday of Easter, doesn'tmatter.
(15:03):
We're celebrating the risen Lordtoday and every day.
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