TRULY UNDERSTOOD THAT I CAME FROM YOU

At 20,17-27; Ps 67; Jn 17,1-11a
15 MAY
The first truth of our faith is the most pure confession that Christ Jesus, our Lord, not only is from the Father in time, as his envoy, but also from the Father in eternity because he was generated by him. “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God”: always forever and in everything He is from the Father. The second truth to be proclaimed with a live, true and convinced faith tells us that Christ Jesus not only did the will of the Father, not only showed us the Father in all the power of his love and his light, but it is He who, through his Holy Spirit, gives the Father to every heart as its true life. If Jesus does not give the Father, we are without the true God, because the true God is only the Father of Jesus and is given only by Jesus. Christ the Lord is the gift of the Father to humanity, so that by accepting him, in him, for him and with him, we receive his Father as our true Father, becoming partakers of his divine nature. Everything is for Christ, but everything is also in Christ, everything is lived with Christ. Without Christ we are without the Father, the Holy Spirit, the light, life, truth, peace and true hope.

And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth (Jn 1, 14). Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees his father doing; for what he does, his son will do also (Jn 5, 19). And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father” (Jn 6, 65). No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again. This command I have received from my Father” (Jn 10, 18). Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him” (Jn 14, 21). You heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I (Jn 14, 28). I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father (Jn 15, 15). When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me (Jn 15, 26). Righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me (Jn 16, 10). I came from the Father and have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father” (Jn 16, 28).

In the prayer that Jesus addresses to the Father, before walking towards the cross, he tells him that the disciples know that He is from the Father. This truth is vitally important, because it is the irreplaceable foundation for starting a true relationship with God. If we do not believe that Jesus is from the Father, the consequences are disastrous. We have either a God without Christ Jesus, or a Christ God without the God who is the Creator of heaven and earth and all visible and invisible things. There would start a dualism in the faith without any relationship or communion in the truth. We would have two autonomous and independent Gods.

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.

Confessing that Jesus is from the Father we have only one eternal principle on which our faith must be founded: On the Father who sent Christ as a way of grace and truth so that we return to the Father. Christ came from the Father and returns to the Father. We for Christ come from the Father and through Christ, in the Holy Spirit, we return to the Father.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels, Saints, give us the true faith in Christ.