Saturday, April 28, 2018 4th Week of Easter 1st Reading: Acts 13:44-52 Gospel: John 14:7-14
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 EXPERIECE
(DAILY GOSPEL IN THE ASSIMILATED LIFE
EXPERIENCE)
When I was still teaching in High School and handling an advisory class, it was always a revelation to me each time I’d meet the parents of my students. Why? Because the deportment of the parents were always useful to me in understanding the behavior of my students. Indeed, most of our mannerisms can be traced back to what we have seen and heard from our parents.
Today’s Gospel takes this reality to the Trinitarian level when it speaks of the unity between God the Father and the Son. Their unity is so intimate that he was able to say: “Whoever sees me has seen the Father”.
This Gospel reading will never fail to remind me of that experience when I was the emcee of the recreation program at our gathering as members of the Young Clergy. Dangling cash prize for an incentive I asked my fellow priest who among them could bring me the picture of his father. None came forward, unlike the other items where they just raced towards the podium to present the required wares. Then shyly from behind came forward Fr. Kit Sestoso. I thought he was playing a big joke because he handed to me his own picture, not the picture of his father. He naughtily explained: “He who sees me has seen my father”.
If human beings can be that close to their fathers, we can imagine the closeness of Jesus to God the Father in a kind of unity that is typically Trinitarian. Jesus would like us to maintain the same kind of unity. He asks us to believe in him and to do the things that he is doing. –(Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan delos Angeles, Jr., D.M. Email: [email protected]
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