Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father

11 MAY (Jn 16,23b-28)

If we read the Old Scripture, we will notice how no one has ever spoken in front of death like Christ Jesus. A pale similarity is found with Jacob, but it is just a similarity. Nothing more. Jacob came from Palestine. In Palestine, or the land of Canaan, his body was brought to be buried.

Then he gave them this charge: “Since I am about to be taken to my kindred, bury me with my fathers in the cave that lies in the field of Ephron the Hittite, the cave in the field of Machpelah, facing on Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial ground. There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, and so are Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there, too, I buried Leah – the field and the cave in it that had been purchased from the Hittites.” When Jacob had finished giving these instructions to his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and was taken to his kindred. Joseph threw himself on his father’s face and wept over him as he kissed him. Then he ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his father. When they embalmed Israel, they spent forty days at it, for that is the full period of embalming; and the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days. When that period of mourning was over, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s courtiers. “Please do me this favor,” he said, “and convey to Pharaoh this request of mine. Since my father, at the point of death, made me promise on oath to bury him in the tomb that he had prepared for himself in the land of Canaan, may I go up there to bury my father and then come back?” Pharaoh replied, “Go and bury your father, as he made you promise on oath.” So Joseph left to bury his father; and with him went all of Pharaoh’s officials who were senior members of his court and all the other dignitaries of Egypt, as well as Joseph’s whole household, his brothers, and his father’s household; only their children and their flocks and herds were left in the region of Goshen. Chariots, too, and charioteers went up with him; it was a very large retinue. When they arrived at Goren-ha-atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and solemn memorial service; and Joseph observed seven days of mourning for his father. When the Canaanites who inhabited the land saw the mourning at Goren-ha-atad, they said, “This is a solemn funeral the Egyptians are having.” That is why the place was named Abel-mizraim. It is beyond the Jordan. Thus Jacob’s sons did for him as he had instructed them. They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, facing on Mamre, the field that Abraham had bought for a burial ground from Ephron the Hittite. After Joseph had buried his father he returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all who had gone up with him for the burial of his father. (Gen 49,29-50-14).

On the contrary, Jesus comes alive from the Father and returns there alive. He was in the arms of death for three days. This truth is his alone and no one else’s. Prophets, Apostles, Evangelists, Teachers, Doctors, theologians, philosophers, Founders of Religion, Scientists and all those who in some way had an impact in their religious, cultural, of faith, science journey and more, are dead and lying in their tombs. But Jesus is the Eternal Living. He is the Lord of history, the Judge of the living and the dead, the One who rules the world today.

On that day you will not question me about anything. Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. “I have told you this in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but I will tell you clearly about the Father. On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father for you. For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God. I came from the Father and have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

The truth of every man is from the truth Christ the Lord and it is the truth of Jesus his coming from the bosom of the Father as true God and his return to the bosom of the Father as true God and true man, with a glorious, spiritual, incorruptible and immortal body. There is no truth of redemption for man, if not in this most pure faith. God, the Father, recognizes one voice: that of his only Son. If we believe in Christ and pray to the Father in His name, He hears us. If we do not acknowledge Jesus Christ, the Father does not know us. He does not hear in us the voice of the Son and never might he hear our prayer. Who lives in Christ, with Christ, for Christ is heard by the Father.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints give us the true faith in Christ.