This reflection for the Fourth Sunday after Easter draws on the Gospel of John, where Christ tells His disciples it is "expedient" that He go — so that the Paraclete, the Spirit of truth, may come. The Epistle from James grounds this promise in the unchanging generosity of God: every perfect gift comes from the Father of Lights. Drawing on Saint Hilary of Poitiers and Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, the reflection explores the Holy Spirit as the light the soul needs to know God, and calls families to receive with meekness the ingrafted word that is able to save souls — with hearts fixed, as the Collect asks, on the true happiness of heaven amid the changes of this world.

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