Please read this passage before reading the homily.
My sisters and brothers,
The Father will give another Advocate to be with you always. If the Spirit is another Advocate, there must be a first Advocate. John talks about Jesus as an Advocate in his first letter. Both Jesus and the Spirit are Advocates.
There is need for no others and no other can be an Advocate. When we pray for another or ask someone to pray for us or our intentions, we can only do this because of our unity with Christ and we pray: through Christ our Lord”.
In this passage, the Holy Spirit is described as the Spirit of truth. This Spirit will be with us always.
In fact, we shall have a very intimate union with the Holy Spirit. Jesus says that the Spirit will be with us and also in us. He Spirit is like the air we breathe and the air around us, like a river in which fish swim.
It is not only the Holy Spirit who will be with us and in us. In other places in the gospel, we can learn that the Father and Jesus want to be with us and in us. All three of the divine persons dwell with us and in us. The whole of God’s revelation to us is that God wants to communicate with us, to be united with us, and thus be intimate with us and in us.
Through the Holy Spirit, we can come to realize that Christ is in the Father and the Father is in Christ, and Christ is in us. It is the work of the Holy Spirit, who is in union with the Father and Son, to bring us into the union of communion with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
This is the intimacy that is for us. Like the human intimacy of marriage, it comes to us when we love God enough to keep his commandments.