5/17/20: 6th Sunday of Easter: The Inner Life of God ... and What We Have to Do with It!

Today Jesus once again gives words to the greatest mystery: the relationship between the Father and himself the Son and their relationship to the Holy Spirit. Jesus is telling us about the inner life of God! And, perhaps evening more amazing and mysterious, how he is inviting us to be participants -- through the Holy Spirit dwelling within us -- in the life of God. Our first reading today tells us why this is possible and why the Holy Spirit's indwelling is an objective fact: Because we have been baptized and confirmed. This is what confers the Spirit. So even if we haven't been living life as if the Holy Spirit were living within us, let's begin now.

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