Saturday, April 23, 2016

Reflection -- Mass Readings 23 April 2016


In today's readings from Mass, Jesus is speaking to his disciples at the Last Supper.   Philip says to him:
Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.
Jesus then says:
Have I been with you so long a time and you still do not know me Philip?  Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.


It is as though Jesus were saying: I've been showing you the Father for the last three years.  If showing you the father were sufficient you would already be satisfied.

Showing us the Father was not enough for the Father or the Son.  He underwent his Passion, not so that we could merely see the Father, but so that we might be with him always.

And this is God's desire for us, that we should be with Him always.  Not for just a moment, not for a day, a weekend, or for a few months.  But always and forever.  The Father living in the Son and the Son living in us.

May His desire be ours, so that our Joy may be complete.


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