28/06/2025

Each time the Liturgy is celebrated, we return to the final assembly of Jesus and his Apostles that is the beginning of the completion of the Incarnation, the event that although eternally present with IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is also a real-time, historical event that began some 33 years before the Last Supper and was concluded forty days later.

During that time in the Upper Room Jesus, True God, summed up in word and Sacrament  for all time the significance of "image and likeness" and the relationship between that limited freedom and his "Evergreater" Being. 

Even the Apostles, the "friends" and witnesses who had followed for three years had had to have their experiences interpreted for them. They had listened with rapt attention to his, way beyond that of Scribes and Pharisee, authority but they  still had to have Jesus' parables explained to them. They could not "understand the miracles" but only wonder in awe. We know that there was much more to come.

Towards the end of his long and holy life John who had had the incalculable grace of living with Our Lady "blessed art thou among women"  added to the Infinite blessings of knowing Jesus that he had shared with all the other Apostles, except Paul, was inspired to add to the "Synoptic Gospels" his own remembrances of Jesus' prayers and teaching.

The Holy Spirit is always a Spirit of Righteousness. 

In the first reading, St Paul under the influence of the Holy Spirit, encourages Timothy to aim for righteousness by avoiding the stupid quarrels and disagreements that had marred the progress of the Early Church first in Jerusalem and thereafter in any other place where there was a new foundation.

The Holy Spirit is also a Spirit of Truth. 

In the second reading, St John also under the influence of the Holy Spirit records for all time the Truth which brings the Unity and Theology which has given him for all time the title, The Theologian.

O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you

I know  you and these know that you have sent me

I made known to them your name 

and will continue to make it known

That the Love with which you have loved me may be in them

and I in them.