Saturday, MAY 17, 2014
4th Week of Easter
1st Reading: Acts 13:44–52
Gospel: Jn 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-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
No one can deny the existence of God because creation is awash with God’s footprints. By observing nature alone one can reasonably arrive at the conclusion that God exists. Aristotle, for example, studied the phenomenon of movement and came up with the conclusion that in the series of cause and effect relationships, one must arrive at an unmoved mover which he called a prime mover. God is that prime mover who is the cause of the existence of everything in this world. 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.”
When the Word was made flesh, humans no longer had to make do with nature’s mute proclamation because Jesus was the perfect revelation of the Father. The disciples were not aware of this. That’s why Philip asked Jesus in today’s Gospel to be shown the Father. Philip asked him, “Lord, show us the Father and that is enough.” Jesus replied: “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?” With Jesus’ incarnation, no one can reasonably deny the existence of God.
But while this is no longer the generation of atheists, hypocrites reign. They profess belief in Christ but live in contradiction to what they believe. 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. Website: www.frdan.org.
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