May 02, 2016 Monday
6th Week of Easter
1st Reading: Acts 16:11–15
Gospel: Jn 15:26—16:4
Jesus said to his disciples, “From the Father, I will send you the Spirit of truth. When this Helper has come from the Father, he will be my witness, and you, too, will be my witnesses for you have been with me from the beginning.“I tell you all this to keep you from stumbling and falling away. They will put you out of the Jewish communities. Still more, the hour is coming when anyone who kills you will claim to be serving God; they will do this because they have not known the Father or me. I tell you all these things now so that when the time comes you may remember that I told you.“I did not tell you about this in the beginning because I was with you.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
Here’s this hilarious story of a pope who wants to take over the steering wheel from his driver. “They never let me drive at the Vatican,” the pope explains to the driver. Reluctantly, the driver gets in the back but quickly regrets his decision when the pope accelerates the limo to105 km/h. Then they hear sirens. The pope pulls over and rolls down the window as the cop approaches. But the cop takes one look at him, goes back to his motorcycle, and gets on the radio to report to him that he has just stopped an over-speeding limo. “But I don’t think we want to apprehend him, he is really important,” says the cop. The chief asks, “Who ya got there, the Mayor?” Cop: “Bigger.” Chief: “Governor?” Cop: “Bigger.” “Well,” says the chief, “Who is it?” Cop: “I think it’s God!” Chief: “What makes you think it’s God?” Cop: “He’s got the pope for a limo driver!”
The cop’s logic is simple: if the driver is as great as a Supreme Pontiff, the guest at the passenger seat must be of higher status. The conclusion is not without sound basis. From experience we learn that if the servant is great, the master must be greater. Something similar could be said of our status after God sent no less than the Holy Spirit to be our helper. The descent of the Holy Spirit has raised us, not necessarily to a status higher than that of the Holy Spirit but at least to the divine level. With the Psalmist we exclaim: What is man that you should keep him in mind, mortal man that you should care for him? Yet you have made him little less than a God, with glory and honor you crowned him, gave him power over the works of your hands and put all things under his feet” (Psalm 8).
But like any privilege, this status is saddled with a responsibility to remain docile to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. In our spiritual journey He does the driving, not us. – Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email:dan.delosangeles@gmail.com.
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