(Jn 16:5-11)
In ancient times, there were no lawyers, and one had to defend oneself by finding witnesses.
The defendant could be guilty but worthy of pardon, or innocent yet unable to show evidence.
In such cases, acquittal was secured by an esteemed person from the audience, who stood up from the assembly and silently stood beside the accused, vouching for him and thus justifying him.
It is the action of the Spirit, in Jn referred to as the 'Paraclete': «called alongside».
Jesus was condemned by the experienced masters of official religion as deranged, heretical and an unforgivable sinner.
It is to be expected that those who renounce simulation and accept Christ as Lord of their lives will also be judged in the same way.
By betting everything, he will soon feel alive and deep down his identity of destiny with Him.
But in us there is a silent force of conviction that harmonizes even accusations, that frees us from externally induced tensions.
Correspondence that reweaves the threads of the vocational web.
Tunefulness that brings the soul back to the inner concert, for the mission; and gets the soul going again even after the drudgery of idiotic harassment.
Such intimate and friendly power is not related to obstinacy, but to listening to oneself.
There is an inner world of 'doors-opening Presence'.
It has a secret power of authority, devoid of verdicts or impositions, that releases the soul from the relentless struggle against adversity.
And one willingly relies on such silent virtue: of independent Life, which emerges, and comes.
«Sin» (vv.8-9) is in fact the inability to accept the Call to follow one's own Seed, one's own Core, one's own character that detests the dirigisme of others, the efforts, the noise.
Nucleus that weaves its roots into the ground, then into the space around it. And infallibly guides one to realization - as well as correspondence.
Thus bearing witness to the unrepeatable personal Calling.
By Way, the authentic disciple will understand that the Lord has condoned his «sin», that is, He has erased the humiliation of the unbridgeable distances [between creaturely condition and perfection].
«Justice»: divine justice is not retributive, because it would distinguish "mine" from "yours".
And from division to division, it would lead to the worst injustices.
The Father acts by creating: He «makes» Justice where there is none.
He places us in positions that conform to being and essence. He lays appropriate relationships where they do not yet exist.
In short, Love remains unbalanced: it stands on the erratic side of the free Gift, which is not kept at bay.
Rather, it rewrites the whole story. With much of Excessive.
«Judgement» that communicates his life-giving Spirit (Jn 19:30) and annihilates the accusations decreed by the «world» of convenience.
From where? From the Cross.
Same point from which he who is enlightened by the Spirit who overcomes interest and death, heals and frees from fetters.
The believer knows how to be with himself in a different way; without censoring himself.
By regenerating himself and uplifting the lives of many sisters and brothers.
[Tuesday 6th wk. in Easter, May 27, 2025]
