Jesus did not abandon you but empowered you to heal and be healed. You are loved, you are in Christ and Christ is in you, and Jesus is in God the Father.

Jesus was around on this earth for about three decades, and then he wasn't. Some said he died on the cross and that was that. Some said he rose from the dead, stuck around another 40 days, and then returned to his Father. But those who believe accept two things simultaneously: that Jesus definitively went away, and that he also emphatically remains. So where is he?

If you love me, show it by doing what I’ve told you. I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth.

WHEN I WAS A CHILD, the Holy Spirit was the one person of the Trinity I didn’t quite get. Though it was a little tough to wrap my head around the idea that God could be three distinct persons at once, I could of course understand the notion of God the Father and God the Son.

Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

"Come and see the works of God”—like those Acts describes. But don’t only see: Receive—the Holy Spirit, the Advocate and his truth. And don’t only hear the truth but share it. Declare it, “always . . . ready to give an explanation . . . for a reason for your hope.”

The disciples were filled with grief when Jesus told them he would soon be departing from them. They did not understand the gift they were about to receive in the Holy Spirit, the Advocate that Jesus promised to send upon his departure.

The Holy Spirit is like the wind. It can be gentle enough to stroke a leaf but hard enough to bend a tree. —Alisa Hope Wagner