Monday, VII week of Easter: 18th May, 2015
Acts 19:1-8; Jn 16: 29-33
No one probably understood Jesus when he was around. They were only making their guesses, putting together things that they saw, the things they heard and the things that were being reported. Today, as many other times Jesus confronts them with the truth! When the disciples presume that they knew and understood what Jesus was saying, Jesus makes them realise their folly and their weakness - not out of despise - but out of genuine concern.
They still had not known the Spirit, as those men of Ephesus whom we come across in the first reading. Jesus introduces to them and speaks to us of the continuous presence of God, which is the indwelling Spirit. It is with the coming of the Spirit that the apostles come to understand Jesus and Him, they become conquerors.
We are invited today to contemplate this Spirit of the Lord, who will make of us too: conquerors of the world and all its viles.
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