Sixth Sunday of Easter

An Infinite Creativity

“There was great joy in that city.” In the Acts of the Apostles, we read over and over again that the disciples were able to perform great works everywhere they went. Most of those great works were healings. Some were the driving out of demons. In each of them, the power of the Word of God brings conversion and joy. This weekend we continue to celebrate the joy of Easter. Yes, this is the Sixth Sunday of Easter and that means Easter joy.

To sustain that joy, Jesus promised the disciples that he would ask the Father to send them (and us) another Advocate to be with us always. That Advocate is the Holy Spirit. St. John Paul II wrote, “The Holy Spirit can be said to possess an infinite creativity, proper to the divine mind, which knows how to loosen the knots of human affairs, even the most complex and inscrutable.”

To believe in the advocacy of the Holy Spirit is to believe that the Holy Spirit is at work in everyone. The Holy Spirit can unravel the things that have us tied up in knots, that keep us awake at night. The Holy Spirit can mend our broken relationships—personal, communal and even those in the world.

We ask this weekend for the infinite creativity of the Holy Spirit to be alive and well in each of us, in our families, in our parish community and in our world.