I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE

At 13,26-33; Ps 2; Jn 14,1-6
27 APRIL
The way on which to walk to reach each one’s own true humanity is the Word of the Lord revealed in his Law, in his Commandments and in his Statutes.

But following exactly the way prescribed for you by the Lord, your God, that you may live and prosper, and may have long life in the land which you are to occupy (Dt 5, 33). The Lord said to me, ‘Go down from here now, quickly, for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have become depraved; they have already turned aside from the way I pointed out to them and have made for themselves a molten idol (Dt 9, 12). I saw how you had sinned against the Lord, your God: you had already turned aside from the way which the Lord had pointed out to you by making for yourselves a molten calf! (Dt 9, 16). A curse if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord, your God, but turn aside from the way I ordain for you today, to follow other gods, whom you have not known (Dt 11, 28).  For I know that after my death you are sure to become corrupt and to turn aside from the way along which I directed you, so that evil will befall you in some future age because you have done evil in the Lord’s sight, and provoked him by your deeds” (Dt 31, 29).

The truth of man is God and it’s from him. The divine Word tells man what makes him a true man and what instead makes him a false man in his nature and in everything he works.

Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day (Ps 25, 5). All the paths of the Lord are loving kindness and truth To those who keep His covenant and His testimonies (Ps 25, 10). O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places (Ps 43, 3). Ride on victoriously, For the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness (Ps 44, 5). Loving kindness and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other (Ps 84, 11). Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name (Ps 86, 11). Before the Lord, for He is coming, For He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness And the peoples in His faithfulness (Ps 96, 13). The works of His hands are truth and justice; All His precepts are sure (Psl 111, 7). All Your commandments are faithful; They have persecuted me with a lie; help me! (Ps 119, 86). Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is truth (Ps 119, 142). The sum of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting (Ps 119, 160).

Through the Word, man becomes truth and lives in the truth. Out of the Word he becomes falsehood and dies in falsehood. Life is a gift that God bestows upon those who walk in his Word and become truth. Way, truth and life are always one.

For the life was made visible; we have seen it and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was made visible to us (1Jn 1, 2). And this is the promise that he made us: eternal life (1Jn 2, 25). Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him (1Jn 3, 15). And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son (1Jn 5, 11). I write these things to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God (1Jn 5, 13). We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us discernment to know the one who is true. And we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life (1Jn 5, 20).

What changes in Christ in relation to the Old Testament? The change is substantial. Not only is Christ Jesus the perfection of the way, of the truth and of life. Way, truth, life can be lived only in him, for him and with him, becoming with him only one body. Nothing exists outside of Him. Everything is given for Him, but everything is also given in Him.

“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.

We do not live the Gospel outside of Him, but in Him. We do not receive grace out of Him, but for Him to be one in Him and with Him. We are not the truth outside of Him, but only in Him.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us one with Christ.