Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?

1 Cor 15,1-8; Ps 18; Jn 14,6-14
3 MAY

Jesus leaves no doubt about his essence and his mission: “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you have known me, you will also know my Father: from now on you know him and you have seen him”. “I am” is a declaration of God’s eternal being. It is only “I am”. God is not from himself. No one can be from himself, that is he can make himself. If God could make himself, he would not be God, because he would not be eternal. He would not even be, because never the non-being can create a being, nothingness, the whole, the non-existent eternity, the non-power the omnipotence. God is without beginning and without end. He has not received being from anyone. Saying Jesus “I Am”, he says the same thing. He is from eternity and for eternity the way, the truth and the way. He did not become life, he did not receive it from anything created. He did not draw the truth out of himself. He is eternal life, eternal way and eternal truth. No man is way, truth and life, because he has to receive everything. Those who receive life will necessarily receive everything else. But if He is the way, the way that leads to the Father, without Him, never might God be reached and even known.

If Jesus is the way, even the Father to come to man must run through this way. He has travelled this way in creation. Everything was done through his Word. He is going through it in redemption and in salvation. God works salvation only through this way. Even to reach eternal life one must walk on this one and only way. The way is not only from man to God, but also from God to man. If Jesus is the truth, he is not only the truth of man, he is also the truth of the Father. Man in Christ draws all the truth that makes him true man. The Father gives Christ all the truth to be manifested so that everything may be known of Him. No one can know the truth of the Father unless he draws it from Christ the Lord. In Christ, man becomes true because he is transformed into the truth of Christ. In Christ the father is known, because He is the only one who reveals to us all the truth of the Father. If Jesus is life, no one can think of returning to life – man is in death for his sin – if he does not accept Christ as his life and every day lets himself be nourished of his divine, eternal, supernatural and spiritual life. Either we let ourselves be vivified to Christ or we remain in death.

Jesus said to him, “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.

If Jesus is the way so that the Father comes to man and man goes to the Father, the truth of the Father in which man becomes truth, the life of the Father, receiving which man abandons the prison of death and is put into a life higher than that received on the day of his creation, it is also true that never a single person in the world might know the Father if he does not know Christ, so it is also true that knowing the Christ we know the Father, because the Father and the Son are only one thing. The Father is all in the Son and the Son is all in the Father in unity and in the eternal communion of the Holy Spirit. In Christ, through Christ and with Christ, every disciple of Jesus, having become his body, must be able to say what Jesus said about himself: “He who sees me, sees Christ. Those who know me, know Christ, because I am the way to go to Christ and so that Christ comes to you. I am the truth of Christ that helps you to be true in Him. I am the life of Christ that calls you to let be made eternal life in his eternal life”. Faith obliges this confession.

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