In today’s Gospel for the Solemnity of The Most Holy Trinity, Jesus said to his disciples: "I have
much more to tella you, but you cannot bear it now.  But when he comes, the Spirit of Truth, he will guide you to all Truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming.” What does it mean for the first disciples who then hear Jesus say that “there is much more to tell you, but that you cannot bear it now?”

Will God reveal more Gospels? Will His message of Love and Salvation be modernized to a sort
of AD 33.1 version? Father Raymond Brown, a leading Scripture Scholar of the New Testament, warns us against anticipating “new teachings from God.” In fact, in John 15:9-17 we hear Jesus say, “I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.” For us, with more than 2,000 years of history, of intense study by Church scholars, we understand today’s Gospel phrase “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now” to translate to a knowledge of the help we will receive from the Holy Spirit in understanding what God means and
how to apply His teachings in our present time and place. The Holy Spirit will “remind us of all Jesus taught, and He will lead us to all the Truth.” We trust in the Magisterium of the Church, that is, the working of the Holy Spirit’s guidance in the teachings of the Church proclaimed when the Pope and all Bishops come together and speak for the whole Church. The Spirit is at work in-and-through-them. We trust in the Holy Spirit to dwell within us and to lead us to righteous moral decisions in our life; we trust in the Holy Spirit to lead us as a Catholic people to understand God’s
Will in the morality we profess and live out.

It is true that both the original disciples—in the early post-Resurrection time of Christ and we, His
newest disciples,—will need help in understanding fully the message which Christ revealed so that we may apply His Truths in a changing world, so that we may see how God’s truths are to be applied—the Good News—in a world that discards truth and fact for the convenience of the modern culture. The Holy Trinity is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are the source, the summit and font of Love—a love, “gape”, that carries with it only that which is the excellence which God desires us to become. For God, the Father of all creation, will not lead us to something that is not good—or the most excellent—for us. And as we heard last weekend in the homily and we know from our Nicene Creed, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, therefore the Holy Spirit is the manifestation of the Love that the Father and the Son share—then that Love, the Spirit, is sent to dwell within us and to animate us to be the Father in-and-amid the lives we live here and now.

The Holy Spirit should bring us great comfort. He will lead us to all truths, He will help us in a world
that puts up resistance to God’s Truths, and the Spirit will guide us in all decisions we are called to make in our families, community and world…if we welcome Him into our lives. This is the great gift of The Most Holy Trinity which we celebrate today. Our God is a loving God who is near to us. He is not a distant Father, an ethereal God who is far beyond our lives. He is a God who is near us, a God who wants to be involved in our daily lives, a God that wants to share our hopes, desires and needs and thus be the answer to all our prayers. Will we let Him? That is up to us, since the second greatest gift our God has given us—Free Will—allows our love for Him to be pure and free, a real love that will open to us all that He was, is and shall ever be. It only takes a simple fiat, a “Yes” to
the Lord.