Footprints of Faith

May 07, 2016 Saturday, 6th Week of Easter 1st
Reading: Acts 18:23-28 Gospel: Jn 16:23-28

Jesus said to his disciples, “When that day comes you will not ask me anything. Truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my Name, he will give you. So far you have not asked in my Name; ask and receive that your joy may be full.

I taught you all this in veiled language, but the time is coming when I shall no longer speak in veiled language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.

When that day comes, you will ask in my Name and it will not be for me to ask the Father for you, for the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and you believe that I came from the Father. As I came from the Father and have come into the world, so I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)

Ascension triggered the following Trinitarian movements: God the Son returning to the Father, God the Father sending down the Holy Spirit, and God the Holy Spirit descending upon the Apostles. Each time we make the sign of the cross we trigger these big Trinitarian Movements in our lives. That is why we firmly believe that no prayer is left unheard. Jesus himself said: “Truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my Name, he will give you” (John 16:24).

But to trigger the foregoing Trinitarian movements, the signs of the cross we make must leave footprints of faith on our foreheads, breasts and shoulders. The shoulders that we touch in making the sign of the cross as we mention the name of the Holy Spirit are parts of the body associated with the carriage of burden. We leave big footprints of faith in the way we meritoriously carry our crosses. The breast that we strike in making the sign of the cross is the same breast we strike to show sorrow for sin while making the act of contrition. A life of sincere repentance leaves great footprints of faith. The forehead shelters the mind. And as we touch it in making the sign of the cross we submit our minds to moral principles and immutable truths about God. Such leaves greater footprints of faith.

With these footprints, the sign of the cross converts the mind, conquers the heart, and empowers the person to carry his cross. Prayer time introduced by the sign of the cross becomes God’s workshop for another big Trinitarian movement happening in our midst: our gradual conversion.

This way it can be said that our conversion is fruit of Jesus’ Ascension. For as it was the Ascension that triggered the big Trinitarian movements above-mentioned, these movements we renew as we open our prayers with the sign of the cross trigger our conversion.—(Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM, MAPM, MMExM, REB, Email:[email protected].

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