Gospel: John 5:17-30
Jesus answered the
Jews: “My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.” For this reason they
tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but he
also called God his own father, making himself equal to God.
Jesus answered and
said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do anything on his own,
but only what he sees the Father doing; for what he does, the Son will do also.
For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself does, and
he will show him greater works than these, so that you may be amazed. For just
as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to
whomever he wishes. Nor does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment
to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever
does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Amen, amen, I
say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has
eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to
life. Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here when the
dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For
just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to the Son the
possession of life in himself. And he gave him power to exercise judgment because
he is the Son of Man. Do not be amazed at this, because the hour is coming in
which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and will come out those who
have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done
wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation.
“I cannot do
anything on my own;I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not
seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.”
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Reflection:
Do you believe that
Jesus and the Father are one and the same? The critics of Jesus did not believe
this oneness of the father and the son. The critics of Jesus did not believe
because their mindset was based on their human understanding which is always subject
to limitations.
What separates us
from the critics of Jesus in our gospel? We believe in the oneness of the father
and the son, we believe because we have faith. Faith that is not subject to what our eyes and ears can see and hear.
If our faith is confined
to what we could only see and hear this in actually not faith because true faith
or deep faith requires believing even without seeing. Through our faith in both the father and the son
we are able to further discover the many truths about our catholic faith. And we are also able to grow more in faith and
knowledge about our universal church.
Perhaps some of us
may ask, Why am I not growing in faith? The answer to this is we lack something
perhaps this something is our lack of faithful adherence to the teachings of
our universal faith.
Say for example our lack
of adherence to the insolubility of the Sacrament of Matrimony, the Sanctity of
human life, the healing and cleansing value of the Sacrament of Reconciliation
and the many more teachings of our catholic faith. We will not grow in faith if
we don’t believe these teachings.
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