Saturday, April 23, 2016 4th Week of Easter
1st Reading: Acts 13:44–52 Gospel: Jn14:7–14
Jesus said to his disciples, “If you know me, you will know the Father also; indeed you know him and you have seen him.” Philip asked him, “Lord, show us the Father and that is enough.” Jesus said to him,
“What! I have been with you so long and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever sees me sees 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?
“All that I say to you, I do not say of myself. The Father who dwells in me is doing his own work.
Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; at least believe it on the evidence of these works that I do.
“Truly, I say to you, the one who believes in me will do the same works that I do; and he will even do greater than these, for I am going to the Father. Everything you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. And everything you ask in calling upon my Name, I will do.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
No one can deny the existence of God without being unreasonable because creation is awash with God’s footprints. Movements in the corporeal world alone necessitate the existence of God. By observing movements, Aristotle said, one realizes that in the series of movers and moved objects, (cause and effect), one must arrive at an unmoved mover – the prime mover. God is that prime mover who is the cause of the existence of everything in this world. God is the unmoved mover. He is in fact the reason of all movements and source of all existence. The created world is a ‘mute proclaimer’ of the existence of God. “An atheist”, wrote an anonymous jester, “is one who thanks God that there is no God.”
Thanks to the incarnation we no longer have to make do with nature’s mute proclamation of God’s existence. Jesus declared himself as the perfect revelation of the Father. When Philip asked Jesus in today’s Gospel to show them the Father, Jesus assured him that those who saw him already saw the Father. No one can reasonably deny the existence of God not only because nature is awash with God’s footprints but especially because Jesus had become man and had effectively shown the Father to the world.
But while we hardly encounter, at least in the Philippines, anyone denying the existence of God, hypocrites still abound. They confess God’s existence with their lips but their existence denies what they profess. Let our actions be the loud proclaimers of God’s existence. Actions still speak louder than words. —Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com.
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