No one knows the Father except the Son

WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL (Mt 11,25-30)

Never have we heard words similar to those said by Christ Jesus about his Person and his mission. Never before his coming. Never after his coming. If anyone has uttered, utters or will utter them, they are only lies, falsehoods and deception. We know that Moses was great in the eyes of the Lord. But God speaks to him and he listens. Beyond you cannot go: “Now listen to the words of the Lord: Should there be a prophet among you, in visions will I reveal myself to him, in dreams will I speak to him; Not so with my servant Moses! Throughout my house he bears my trust: face to face I speak to him, plainly and not in riddles. The presence of the Lord he beholds. Why, then, did you not fear to speak against my servant Moses?” (Num 12,6-8). It is God who reveals himself to Moses. God is the Lord, Moses is the servant. There is no other relationship. God is the Father of Christ. Christ is the Son of God.

Paul is speaking of Christ Jesus. He is one of the greatest “connoisseurs” of the mystery of Christ, but only “connoisseur”, nothing more: “For in him dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily, and you share in this fullness in him, who is the head of every principality and power. In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ. You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. And even when you were dead (in) transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our transgressions; obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims, which was opposed to us, he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross; despoiling the principalities and the powers, he made a public spectacle of them, leading them away in triumph by it” (Col 2,9-15). But Paul knows by revelation, by vision. He is not the truth of Christ and not even of the Father.

The Apostle John presents Christ. But which does he Christ present? He presents the Christ who showed and revealed himself to him: “Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and when I turned, I saw seven gold lamp stands and in the midst of the lamp stands one like a son of man, wearing an ankle-length robe, with a gold sash around his chest. The hair of his head was as white as white wool or as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame. His feet were like polished brass refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing water. In his right hand he held seven stars. A sharp two-edged sword came out of his mouth, and his face shone like the sun at its brightest. When I caught sight of him, I fell down at his feet as though dead. He touched me with his right hand and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last, the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld” (Rev 1,12-18). John sees. Christ Jesus is. John narrates the vision. Christ Jesus is the essence of the vision. A not quantitative, but qualitative, essential and natural difference. It is a matter of different natures and essences.

At that time Jesus said in reply, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him. “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”

Christ is the Word, the truth, the life and the light of the Father. One has the Father if he has Christ. One does not have Christ, he does not have the Father. But what is the way so that Christ gives himself to us and in him he gives us the Father? Listening to his Word and obedience to it. But the Apostles are the ones who have to make his Word resound, conforming to Him and give Him in the sacraments of grace. If they omit the preaching of the Word and the gift of Christ in the sacraments, Christ is not given and the Father is not given. The man remains in his darkness. The Apostles must give Christ Jesus by obedience to a command received.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that every man is given Christ according to truth.