Testimony.

Many wished for the death, the demise of the Church, which is the work of Jesus Christ, but which is governed by the Holy Spirit through the visible head, the hierarchy of the Church headed by the Pope. There were also periods in the Church when many believers fell into despair and fear for the Church. However, they forgot that the Church is not the work of man, but of God. Therefore, it will not hurt us to reflect on a passage from the Gospel today and strengthen our faith.

“You will be sorry that I am leaving. For if I do not leave, the Comforter will not come to you. But when I leave, I will send him to you” (Jn 16:7). These words must have surprised the apostles when they heard them from the Lord Jesus. He wants to leave them. They do not understand and do not understand, and therefore he explains to them that when he leaves, it will be true for them and the future Church until the end of the world, because they will only gain by doing so, precisely through the action of the Holy Spirit. a long time of waiting for the Messiah, a different idea of ​​Jesus. There were still many unclear places for them, and therefore his absence after his departure will cure them of the earthly understanding of the teaching they received. This will come to them through the “advocate”, that is, through the third divine person – the Holy Spirit, who is the true God with the Father and the Son. This Holy Spirit became the link in the invisible process between the Lord Jesus and the visible head of the Church on earth until the end of time. Under the influence of the Holy Spirit, the world will recognize that it was not the Lord Jesus, but the world that committed the crime, unbelief. So we can understand that the one who does not believe condemns himself, because he does not cooperate with the one who not only created this, redeemed it after committing sin, but controls him until the end of the world. The world will realize that the death of the Lord Jesus is not a defeat for us, on the contrary, a victory. Christ’s resurrection is the greatest defeat for the unbelieving world. None of us doubts that the Holy Spirit is active among us Although Jesus – our Redeemer and The Saviour has left us, under the influence of the Holy Spirit the whole world can progress more and more and get to know the person of the Lord Jesus more deeply.

We can say that although we have not met the physical Christ as a person, our faith is no less, no less weak. By the departure of the Lord Jesus to the Father, we became able to receive the Holy Spirit and under his influence we can grow in faith and love. We boldly put aside fear for the future of the Church. Even if we don’t see it in rosy cocolorseven if we encounter amazing resistance and hatred towards the Church, the words of the Lord Jesus apply, which have proven themselves many times over two thousand years: “… the gates of hell will not prevail against it” (Mt 16:18