Today marks the beginning of the sixth week of Easter, next Sunday we celebrate the Ascension and triumphant return of Jesus to our Father in Heaven, and in just two weeks Pentecost, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Church. Every year we live out this liturgical cycle, and with a quick glance at our calendars we anticipate what's coming next. We plan and prepare presuming that tomorrow will come just like yesterday and today did. That all things will go according to our plans and schedules, the ones we laid out so neatly. Perhaps many of us are a bit too presumptuous, too comfortable in our lives because we haven't yet fully committed to the way, the truth and the life that we are called to.
It wasn't so for the Apostles, they left all behind to follow Him. The context of today's Gospel has them gathered around Jesus at His Last Supper. He tells them that one of them would betray Him. That Peter, the chief of the Apostles would deny Him three times. That His hour had come and He would soon be leaving them. However He would not leave them orphaned, the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you. They couldn't have possibly imagined what God had in store for them. For eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the human heart what God has prepared for those who love Him.
