Man
is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. - EUGENE O'NEILL:
(1888 –1953: was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature.)
Gospel
Text: (JN 14:6-14)
Jesus said to Thomas, "I am the
way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except
through me.
If you know me, then you will also
know my Father.
From now on you do know him and have
seen him."
Philip said to him,
"Master, show us the Father, and
that will be enough for us."
Jesus said to him, "Have I been
with you for so long a time
and you still do not know me, Philip?
Whoever has seen me has seen 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?
The words that I speak to you I do not
speak on my own.
The Father who dwells in me is doing
his works.
Believe me that I am in the Father and
the Father is in me,
or else, believe because of the works
themselves.
Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever believes in me will do the
works that I do,
and will do greater ones than these,
because I am going to the Father.
And whatever you ask in my name, I
will do,
so that the Father may be glorified in
the Son.
If you ask anything of me in my name,
I will do it."
Whenever I hear the words, "I am
the way, the truth, and the life." I'm reminded of C.S. Lewis' comment on
Jesus when he responded to the idea that Jesus was merely a good teacher and
nothing more. Lewis disagreed vigorously with that observation, saying that
Jesus either was a lunatic with the mentality of a poached egg or he was
exactly who he said he was.
The claims are hard to ignore. Either
Jesus is the way of redemption and the way to heaven or he is not. After
honestly and carefully examining all that he said and did along with the
fulfillment of so many Old Testament prophecies, it would seem to me that one
could only come to the former conclusion.
In the first volume of Jesus of
Nazareth by our Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI,
writes, "In the end, man needs
just one thing, in which everything else is included; but he must first delve
beyond his superficial wishes and longings in order to learn to recognize what
it is that he truly needs and truly wants. He needs God. "
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