The Gospel for Tuesday of the sixth week of Easter is taken from St. John 16:11. Jesus said to his disciples, now I am going to the one who sent me. And not one of you asks, where are you going? But because I told you this grief has filled your hearts. But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go.

For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation. Sin because they do not believe in me. Righteousness because I am going to the Father. And you will no longer see me condemnation because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

I can’t imagine how the disciples felt when Jesus said that he was going to leave them. And it was so traumatic that they couldn’t even ask any more information about it, because they didn’t even want to face that issue. And yet what Jesus is saying to them is so important for all of us to understand is that even though he has left in the flesh and is now with the Father, that there is this presence of Jesus and the Father called the Holy Spirit, and it dwells in our hearts and it will be successful. There is no way that the enemy is going to win this battle. And that brings us hope. The very thing the disciples longed for and finally received when the Spirit wisdom was poured out in them at Pentecost.

SA Satan SA CLOSING PRAYER Father, there’s times when we feel that the darkness is winning. And it’s at those times we must look for the wisdom that we’re asked to find in the struggle that’s going on in the world. And to see somehow the plan of God unfolding. And it always will unfold in the direction of light and truth. That’s his promise, and we must never doubt it. And we ask this in Jesus name, Amen.