Mysticism of the Paraclete: never more orphans
(Jn 14:15-21)
In biblical terms, Spirit [Ruah] does not designate an ineffable entity, but a real one: it is a powerful breath, capable of knocking down everything that wants to remain fixed and installed.
God is Spirit not because He is invisible and unreachable, but because an overwhelming, irrepressible, impetuous force is expressed in His action.
The Spirit breaks in and gives the impetus to set things in motion: spring of life, instrument of the divine work in history.
The Law may point us in the right direction, but it does not make us understand the absurdity of love and its incredible fruitfulness, nor does it convey the energy that leads to our destination.
Jesus substitutes His commandments [His own Person, values and Beatitudes] for those of external custom.
The different expressions of love are infinitely more important than a code of standards or ways of doing things.
For this reason, Jesus is not a model, but Motive and Engine. He did not just teach a road: He still communicates to us His drive to achieve the goal of life.
His bestowed Spirit is called the ‘Paraclete’ [«called beside», term mediated by forensic language]: a kind of lawyer who would stand beside the accused in court to exonerate him (in perfect silence).
It is the Spirit of Christ that reduces evil to powerlessness and renders the accusations against us vain.
In the face of difficulties we can proceed without being discouraged.
The Spirit of the Lord is also at the service of the theologic «Truth»: the Faithfulness of divine Love.
In short: while the Church offers new answers to new questions, it is the Spirit of the Truth that ensures that the Gospel is not corrupted, but rather introduces disciples into the fullness of life and the unexpected richness and radicality of its own Call.
Thus, certain fashions around can close our hearts to the impulses of the Spirit of the Truth. They disperse us.
They corrupt and supplant the purity of the Source, and in cascade, the innate fragrance of our particular essences.
Instead, the Paraclete [in us] defends the integrity of each person from outward enmities and also from the inner powers that do evil.
They are e.g.: fears to correspond to the authentic Call; cravings to have-possess-appear, which drag one away from life.
Instead, we yearn to take on a divine countenance. That is why the Spirit even approves of attempts to enrich: yes, together.
In short, one must often lay down the self, and entrust oneself to the Mystery.
God has a humanizing Face, so the Spirit is the 'defender' who even allows mistakes to happen.
He extinguishes the panic of unexpected starting points. He lets us sense the magic that protects us.
He helps to fly over the ambush of perfectionism, which always threatens to strike even the beginnings of our vocational endeavours.
By loosening controls, judgments, project cravings, dirigisme and voluntarism, we allow the Gift to become Deposit; we let the actual fact to suggest the path, and to take the lead in experiences.
By giving in, step by step we learn to let ourselves be inundated: it is what invades that will make us flourish again. Through processes that elaborate the unthinkable.
By experiencing emotions with less interventionism, we will work with passion.
We will operate by expressing ourselves in our deepest character, and not as others expect; perhaps we will do things contrary to common hopes and intentions.
But by breaking the monotony we will allow opposing polarities to coexist, and the Heart will be more and more the friend of our destiny.
It is our dream: to participate in this Wind of unpredictable effects.
[6th Easter Sunday (year A), May 10, 2026]
