If you love me, you will keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, then consequently  he will give to you another ‘advocate’, to be with you forever, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see him and neither does it know him. You know him, because he stays with you all, and will be within you all. 

I will not leave you orphaned; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will go on seeing me, because I live, and you will live too. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you. 

The one who has my commands and keeps them – that person is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and I will reveal myself to them. 

Be thou a bright flame before me,
Be thou a guiding star above me
Be thou a smooth path below me
Be thou a kindly shepherd behind me
Today – tonight -forever
Amen.

St Columba