They truly understood that I came from you

3 JUNE (Jn 17,1-11a)

The prayer of Jesus is full, dense and rich in content. A book for every word contained in it would be needed. For our daily reflection on the Gospel it is right that we refrain from the totality of the message and we limit ourselves to a few individual aspects. Therefore, we enter into the mystery of Christ the Lord in more detailed way and with intelligence and wisdom of the Holy Spirit the light will be as intense and bright.

There is a truth that is immediately urgent to put on the lamp of our consciences, our hearts  and our minds. When might a man, every man have access to the true knowledge of Christ Jesus? When might he truly say: Jesus is from the Father? Does he come from God? Was he sent by him? When can we say with infallible sureness this truth of our Redeemer and Saviour?

This certainty cannot be founded on miracles. The signs, though very real, after the initial shock and dismay, no longer exist. They are a thing of the mind. They belong to our past, they are not our present. No wonder, not even his glorious resurrection, is a sure sign, a perfect assurance of his coming from God. Even because the resurrection is just a testimony that has its origins in the real history of Jesus the Lord, but that today no longer falls under our senses. By faith we know that Jesus is risen and we believe it. But none of us has direct experience of this most holy event.

What then is the sure, certain and infallible thing stating that Jesus came from God? Only his Word accepted and lived. Only his Word made to become our own lives. Living the Word of Jesus, the only true one, the only creator of a new reality in our daily lives, we must necessarily confess that it is the Word of God and not of a man. If it is the Word of God, Jesus is infallibly from God. No man possesses a word like his. No human word has the power to transform, elevate, regenerate, sanctify and transform a life into perfect charity.

When Jesus had said this, he raised his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you, just as you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to all you gave him. Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do. Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began. “I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you gave me is from you, because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours, and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them. And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are.

The Word is the true path of the faith. This truth of Lord Jesus also applies to his Church, to all his disciples. Today, we make many issues of truth, concepts and notions. Our arguments are infinite. We talk and discuss. But how? Staying out of the Word of Jesus. We say things, but not from the heart of the Word that has transformed our lives. We discuss, but from the absence of the Gospel in us. Never might the other person recognize that we are from Christ the Lord. His Word is outside of us, does not dwell in us, did not transform our lives.

If the other person does not see unerringly that we are from Lord Jesus, never might he come to the true faith, which is not in Jesus, but in ourselves, who are from Jesus. The disciples’ faith is not in God, it is in Jesus that from God. That is how the faith of the world must be. It must not be in Jesus, but in us who are in Jesus. The true faith does not start in Jesus remaining directly in Jesus, but becoming we the way to the right faith in Him.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us the true path of faith.