The Sunday Gospel [May 22, 2011]
John 14:7-14
[Jesus told his disciples,] 1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. 2In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be. 4Where [I] am going you know the way.” 5Thomas said to him, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” 6Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” 8Philip said to him, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” 9Jesus 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’? 10Do 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. 11Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves. 12Amen, 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.”
Reflection
“I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” ~ Jesus in v. 6
I once took a trip by car through the Cornwall section of England. We drove for hours over rolling hills, without seeing a house or human being. It was just long endless stretches of green on all sides … Then in the distance loomed something very large and white, very visible. It was a gigantic billboard not far from the highway we were speeding along. Everyone wondered as we neared it, what would be advertised on such a large shrine in such a God-forsaken place. It said simply: WHAT THINK YOU OF CHRIST? Travelers had a couple more hours of scenery to enjoy as that thought ran through their minds.
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How about you? What do you think of Christ? To what extent is your life and faith a reflection of Jesus Christ?
Source: The Reflection is from Bro. Abel Navarro (you can visit his blog at http://myblogabelnavarro-abel.blogspot.com/).
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