“The disagreements amongst Christians aren’t always a sign of disloyalty and ill-will. They rather show how alive the gospel is, and how the Spirit is still with the Church leading us into all the truth.”

“dynamics and form...what we see in this reading is that a way to understand the presence of the Holy Spirit in the Church is precisely in the maintaining of this beautiful but precarious balance”

“For what is the life, teaching, dying and rising of Jesus but an expression of love to the nth degree...That's why to live in him and to be given gifts is above all to be given the gift of love.”

“the John of Revelation has given us a remarkable account of the virtue of hope: of what might be possible if only we had the courage to allow the love of God, which the author of the Gospel of John so celebrates, to come into our lives”

“and then finally it comes to its fulfillment in the city that comes down through God's grace from heaven and is the beautiful integrated place of right praise where the whole place has become a temple”

“There is no Temple in the heavenly city for the city itself in its entirety has become a temple, a place of right praise...the whole of life has become an act of praise. Ah, and with that the Bible comes effectively to a close for now we see what God, in Christ, has intended from all eternity to bring about.”

“What God has wanted from the beginning is to shine the light of his love into every corner of life...the problem is that we put the divine life at best under a bushel of basket”

“the Spirit is active within us whenever we come to see the truth of what Scripture tells us or whenever we make the choice to live well rather than badly, to be loving rather than selfish, to have courage rather than to give in to despair”

“There are then passages in the Gospel in which Jesus emphasises His divinity and in others His humanity, and, in any given passage, we need to consider which it is, lest we end up with a very confused reading”

“Part of what Jesus is doing in the final discourses to his disciples at the Last Supper is alerting them to the fact that soon things won’t look good, but, in spite of appearances, that is how it is meant to be and things will turn out fine because it is part of God’s plan”

“once we’ve acquired the potential to have the Father, Son and Holy Spirit come and make their home in us, that potential still needs to be realised, which can only happen through God’s activity”

“So the Blessed Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, wish to make their home with each of us individually. Dare we say in an easy-going companionable friendship, in which we are at ease with God?”

“When we make room in our hearts and minds and souls for the Word then we will find ourselves being dwelt in. We will find that the Spirit has set up home in us and we will find that God is indeed closer to us than our own breath.”

“The Gospel continues Jesus’ final instructions to his disciples on Holy Thursday. He continues with the theme of love, but joins it to “keeping my word,” and the importance of the Holy Spirit as a guide for the Church through history.”

“These are all experiences in my life – both joy and pain – that have made me who I am, and have been constant renewals. God has used these to bring me, and those around me, closer to Him. He’s the master gardener of our soul.”

“At this critical time in history we need to work so that Jesus’ farewell gift of peace fills our lives, the lives of those around us and the lives of all peoples”

“The Holy Spirit connects us and guides us as a people, ensuring that the church continues to flourish throughout the ages because of the people who listen and act on His promptings. Hopefully, we will pay attention to what the Spirit asks of us and not disregard it”

“The life of faith for the Spirit-filled Christian disciple involves the head, the heart and the hands...All three are needed and need to inter-react as one.”

“So Jesus is saying...I will send my spirit to dwell within you, the spirit of love to help remind you that what I came to give you is forgiveness. You don't need to earn my approval. I give you my forgiveness. And as someone who is forgiven my approval rests within you and with you. You never needed to earn it.”

“that's the purpose of the Church. It's to change the world. We read these three readings from this weekend, draw together these three lessons about the life of the Church and find great confidence in the fact that it is the Holy Spirit, the Advocate, who still guides us and still leads us.”