You have faith in God; have faith also in me
At 13,26-33; Ps 2; Jn 14,1-6
17 MAY
God and man of God must be one principle of faith, not two. They are one principle of faith, if the man of God is seen essentially, vitally tied to his God, as his true instrument. The man of God must be seen as the hand with respect to the body. As the hand and the body are one, so God and the man of God must be seen as one. They are seen only one thing if in truth they are one only thing. Moses is seen as the true voice of God and the people believe in God and in Moses as the one and only principle of its faith. Neither God without Moses. Nor Moses without God.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to go forward. And you, lift up your staff and, with hand outstretched over the sea, split the sea in two, that the Israelites may pass through it on dry land. But I will make the Egyptians so obstinate that they will go in after them. Then I will receive glory through Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots and charioteers. The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I receive glory through Pharaoh and his chariots and charioteers.” The angel of God, who had been leading Israel’s camp, now moved and went around behind them. The column of cloud also, leaving the front, took up its place behind them, so that it came between the camp of the Egyptians and that of Israel. But the cloud now became dark, and thus the night passed without the rival camps coming any closer together all night long. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord swept the sea with a strong east wind throughout the night and so turned it into dry land. When the water was thus divided, the Israelites marched into the midst of the sea on dry land, with the water like a wall to their right and to their left. The Egyptians followed in pursuit; all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and charioteers went after them right into the midst of the sea.
In the night watch just before dawn the Lord cast through the column of the fiery cloud upon the Egyptian force a glance that threw it into a panic; and he so clogged their chariot wheels that they could hardly drive. With that the Egyptians sounded the retreat before Israel, because the Lord was fighting for them against the Egyptians. Then the Lord told Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may flow back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and their charioteers.” So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea flowed back to its normal depth. The Egyptians were fleeing head on toward the sea, when the Lord hurled them into its midst. As the water flowed back, it covered the chariots and the charioteers of Pharaoh’s whole army which had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not a single one of them escaped. But the Israelites had marched on dry land through the midst of the sea, with the water like a wall to their right and to their left. Thus the Lord saved Israel on that day from the power of the Egyptians. When Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the seashore and beheld the great power that the Lord had shown against the Egyptians, they feared the Lord and believed in him and in his servant Moses (Ex 14, 15-31).
The same truth, the same principle Jesus asks that is applied to him and to the Father. To the Apostles he asks to have faith in the Father and faith in him. Faith in the Father who sent him as his only way, truth, life, light, salvation and redemption. Faith in him as the only eternal sacrament of salvation, life, truth, redemption and grace of the Father. Neither the Father without Christ. Nor Christ without the Father. Christ and the Father are one faith.
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be. Where (I) am going you know the way.” Thomas said to him, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
This truth must also be visible between Christ and the disciple, Christ and the Apostle. Not two principles of faith, one principle. When does this happen or can it happen? When the apostle is the true sacrament of Christ, in the same way that Christ is the true sacrament of the Father. As Christ and the Father are one, so the Apostle and Christ must be one. As the Father sends Christ, so Christ sends his Apostles. No faith can be born in the hearts, if Christ and the Apostles will be two principles, two sources of faith. Today there are two sources and also in opposition.
Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that the Apostles and Jesus are one principle of faith.