Gospel:
John 14:7-14
Jesus
said to his disciples: “If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From
now on you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said to Jesus, “Master, show
us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been
with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has
seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not
believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak
to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his
works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else,
believe because of the works themselves. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever
believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than
these, because I am going to the Father. And whatever you ask in my name, I
will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of
me in my name, I will do it.”
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Reflection:
How well
do we know God the Father? How well do we know Jesus? No one of us can say
that by our own effort we know God the Father and Jesus very well. Because the
gift of deeply knowing God the Father and Jesus is something that we cannot
achieve by our own effort for it’s a gift by the Holy Spirit.
In this
gospel episode Jesus tells the disciples and us too about His oneness with God
the Father. Yet Philip asked Jesus to show them the Father and that would be
enough for them (John 14:8). What was going on in Philip’s mind? Perhaps
Philip was simply following Jesus for the sake of His miracles and mission.
There was no deeper conversion within Philip that’s why He wasn’t able to
decipher the oneness of Jesus and the Father.
When we
decide to follow Jesus, let us not only follow Him because of His miracles and
the desire to share in His mission. Let us decide to follow Jesus also because
of our love for Him thus we yearn for our own spiritual growth with Him. We
yearn for a deeper faith and a deeper conversion within ourselves.
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