Sixth Week of Easter

Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter ( Acts 16:11-15; John 15:26-16:4a) The great promise of the Holy Spirit…The Lord has finished His earthly mission. He is going, at the same time remains. It is the Spirit who makes this presence real. It is the Spirit who frees us from sin, and changes us from the earthly people we are into the spiritual people. It is the Spirit who makes us the Temples constantly singing the praises of God. It is the Spirit who imprints on our souls the image of the Lord. We are the heirs of the Kingdom.

Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter (Acts 16:22-34; John 16:5-11) The Spirit blows where it wishes. Christ has touched all people living and dead without exception. All are united in Him. He touches them with the power of His Spirit. The same Spirit is shared by all, we,the entire human race, are united in the Spirit. The horror of murder in any of its forms, is that it is basically a denial of what God has made all people, His children.

Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter (Acts 17;15-22-18:1;John 16:12-15) A pause. We have walked for almost six weeks with the Lord on this journey. What has He taught us? All the events over which we have meditated cry out with one voice: the Lord has risen. The Lord is alive. Death has been defeated, all things have been reconciled. The voices cry out with joy because He is still with us in the Sacraments. He is present to us through the working of the Holy Spirit within us. He has created a new family.

Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter(When Ascension is celebrated on Sunday) (Acts 18:1-8; John 16:16-20) Grief gives birth to joy. So often in the Gospels do we come across this paradox. Death to life, sorrow to joy, poverty to richness, darkness to light…Grief at parting is replaced by the joy of a new presence. No longer limited by space. We possess this new presence. In possessing it, God Himself, we find our joy fulfilled.

Ascension Thursday
(Acts 1:1-11;Ephesians 1:17-23; Mark 16:15-20)
Our human nature has ascended into heaven. A marvelous exchange takes place today. He becomes present to us through His divinity and He invites us to be with Him through our love. The visible is replaced by the invisible, seeing is given the deeper meaning of faith. The Sacraments are our way of sharing in His Ascension, to be where He is. Today is a day, to look at the things of heaven, and what are these things if not ourselves sharing in the very life of the Lord. Our weak human nature, because of this day, has been raised up.


Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter (Acts 18:9-18; John 16:20-23) We are called to believe. In what? It would be so easy to believe if we could see, but that would not be faith. It would be so easy if we could but hear His voice, touch Him, be satisfied with what our senses tell us about Him, but that would not be faith. Ascension faith is to stretch ourselves beyond our human power and to accept the complete fullness of who He is. Ascension faith asks us not to be satisfied with what our senses tell us. It asks us to live our lives from the viewpoint of heaven.

Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter ( Acts 18:23-28; John 16: 23-28) Ask and you shall receive. We bring this promise so often to a rather selfish level. We look at ourselves not as people of the Ascension, but people of this world. We ask and do not receive. Our definition of joy is relegated to this world, without going into the deeper part of who we are. He is asking us to remember that we have ascended with Him and to ask for those things which will help us live that life.