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GOSPEL POWER l MAY 13, 2022 - FRIDAY
GOSPEL POWER l MAY 13, 2022 - FRIDAY
4th Week of Easter Our Lady of Fatima
Gospel: Jn 14:1-6
Jesus said to his disciples, 1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And you know the way to the place where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
The Gospel of John portrays the world as alienated from God. People live in darkness, which symbolically implies that they have forgotten their Origin. The world is in the grip of a Satanic ruler who keeps people in the oppressive condition of sin. But while this Satanic ruler can confine people in darkness, he cannot suppress their longing for home, for their hearts have been fashioned by God and restlessly yearn to come home. Jesus responds to that yearning. In today’s Gospel he speaks of dwelling places in the Father’s house. He is not referring to an after-death reality but points to being reconnected with God even in this life. Jesus is the way out of the impossible human condition. He is the truth because he is the absolute revealer of what God is like. He is the life because he will mediate God’s eternal life by laying down his own mortal life in selfsacrificing love.
Lord Jesus, our way, truth, and life, conduct us to the paternal home, where alone our hearts can rest. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER l MAY 13, 2022 - FRIDAY
4th Week of Easter Our Lady of Fatima
Gospel: Jn 14:1-6
Jesus said to his disciples, 1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And you know the way to the place where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
The Gospel of John portrays the world as alienated from God. People live in darkness, which symbolically implies that they have forgotten their Origin. The world is in the grip of a Satanic ruler who keeps people in the oppressive condition of sin. But while this Satanic ruler can confine people in darkness, he cannot suppress their longing for home, for their hearts have been fashioned by God and restlessly yearn to come home. Jesus responds to that yearning. In today’s Gospel he speaks of dwelling places in the Father’s house. He is not referring to an after-death reality but points to being reconnected with God even in this life. Jesus is the way out of the impossible human condition. He is the truth because he is the absolute revealer of what God is like. He is the life because he will mediate God’s eternal life by laying down his own mortal life in selfsacrificing love.
Lord Jesus, our way, truth, and life, conduct us to the paternal home, where alone our hearts can rest. Amen.