He Reaches the Core

Only this way can My Presence reach you all the way down — to the very core of your consciousness.
— Julián Carrón
ENGLISH - He reaches the core.
Julián Carrón
ITALIANO - Al cuore della vicenda
Julián Carrón

Juliàn Carrón - Christ does not stay near. He enters the core, where sadness has already gone.

Jesus cannot persuade the disciples. He has already tried to settle them: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. I will not leave you as orphans" (Jn 14:1, 18). And yet, the moment He brings it up again, sorrow takes hold of them — because He is leaving. "I have told you this, and sorrow has filled your hearts."

So He presses one last claim: "It is to your advantage that I go away." In other words: only this way can My Presence reach you all the way down, to the very core of your consciousness. As St. Paul will put it later, "It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me."

Only this way can My Presence reach you all the way down — to the very core of your consciousness.

Without this, the dualism stands. Christ stays outside, and we go on being shaped by sadness, by the feeling of being abandoned — a feeling no external nearness can cure. Only A Presence that crosses the line between outside and inside, by the power of the Spirit, can reach what sadness has already reached.

This is what Christ has done. He has closed the last distance between Himself and us by entering us to the core — so that, through the gift of the Spirit, we recognize that He is in us. And from there, from inside that awareness, we can face whatever circumstance comes, conscious of Him present within us.

Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter · Excerpt from the Homily by Fr. Julián Carrón · May 12, 2026

First Reading: Acts 16:22–34  ·  Psalm 138  ·  Gospel: John 16:5–11

Julián Carrón

Julián Carrón, born in 1950 in Spain, is a Catholic priest and theologian. Ordained in 1975, he obtained a degree in Theology from Comillas Pontifical University. Carrón has held professorships at prestigious institutions, including the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. In 2004, he moved to Milan at the request of Fr. Luigi Giussani, founder of Communion and Liberation. Following Giussani's death in 2005, Carrón became President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, a position he held until 2021. Known for his work on Gospel historicity, Carrón has published extensively and participated in Church synods, meeting with both Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis.

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