The Holy Spirit "will guide you to all truth”
“I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now”. The Lord Jesus told his disciples on the eve of his Passion. The Holy Spirit will "lead you to all truth". The point was not only that the Apostles did not yet understand the mystery of the cross and that they still envisioned the messianic kingdom in temporal terms.
Each of us who tries to follow the path of faith through life knows from his own experience that in faith we mature more and more: more and more deeply we see everything in the light of faith. The truths of faith reveal to us their splendor and wealth, which we have not even perceived before. This development of faith does not stop on this earth. Man learns the Gospel and rejoices in Christ more and more, because we are simply created for eternal life.
The apostle Paul, as well as the apostle Peter, compared the beginning in faith to the infancy. " Brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual people, writes the Apostle Paul in the First Letter to the Corinthians - but as fleshly people,* as infants in Christ. (3: 1). I fed you milk, not solid food, because you were unable to take it. In the letters of the apostles, we are often asked that our faith should grow in us (2 Cor 10:15), that we will grow through a deeper knowledge of God (Col 1:10) and that we will grow in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18). In the Letter to the Hebrews (5:12) there is even reproach against those Christians who, although they have been Christians for a long time, do not grow in faith: " Although you should be teachers by this time, you need to have someone teach you again the basic elements of the utterances of God. You need milk, not solid food."
Well, the Holy Spirit himself watches over the development of faith, both in the whole Church and in each of us. It is thanks to the Holy Spirit that we remain in one faith. If someone deviates from the faith of the Church, it means that he/she has allowed some spirit of lies into his soul. The Holy Spirit never leads a person against the faith of the Church. Because He is the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of Christ, it cannot happen that the Holy Spirit pulls someone out of the Church, who is after all the Bride of Christ.
The Holy Spirit, Jesus promises in today's Gospel, "will guide you to all truth." Therefore, the Church cannot err in faith but is constantly renewing and deepening in her faith. And it is precisely through the power of the Holy Spirit that each of us remains in the faith of the Church and deepens in it. "Until we all attain to the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the extent of the full stature of Christ" (Eph 4:13).
Until Tomorrow
fr. george