Reflections on Scripture | Feast of Saints Phillip & James, Apostles
Join Msgr. Don Fischer as he reads and delivers a short reflection on today’s gospel, followed by 3 1/2 minutes of contemplative music and a closing prayer. Msgr. Don hopes that today’s reflection on the gospel will empower you to carry the Word in your heart throughout the day.
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5-03-23 Reflections on Scripture | Feast of Saints Phillip & James, Apostles
Gospel
John 14:6-14
Jesus said to Thomas, "I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
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 him,
"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."
Reflection
It is not unusual to find people who are drawn to either the God of the Old Testament, a God of justice, or they are drawn to Jesus, who seems more loving and more caring.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The two are one, and the fullness of who God has always been is now revealed in this man, Jesus, so filled with divinity that we see divinity clearly for the first time. And what do we see? A God that will do anything, anything to save us. Anything we long for that would bring us life.
Closing Prayer
Father, for centuries people wondered who you were. And now, in the final times, you revealed yourself as someone wondrously open and capable of doing everything you can to feed us and nurture us and save us. Help us to see that part of you that you revealed through your son. Let it give us hope. And we ask this In Jesus name, Amen.