WHOEVER HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE FATHER

At 13,44-52; Ps 97; Jn 14,7-14
28 APRIL

By comparing all the Old Testament men of God, all have shown who one virtue and who another, who one truth and who another, who a fragment of the face of God and who another. Many things have not been manifested at all. On the other hand, even if God wanted to manifest himself in everything, he could not even have done it. The truth of every truth, the life of every life, the hope of every hope, the love of every love and the charity of every charity were missing. The Only Son given by the Father from the Cross in sacrifice and in holocaust of expiation for the sins of the world was still missing. God without the Crucifix is ​​”terribly lacking”. The Crucifix, indeed the Crucified God, reveals to us how great, immense and infinite the love of the Father is. Now God can say: “I loved you to death. Until I let myself be crucified for you, to expiate your sins, to erase your sins, to pour upon you all the power and omnipotence of my Holy Spirit and of eternal life”. Now we know how great the love of God is. Now, from the Golgotha, from the Crucifix, the words of Jesus are well understood.

No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God (Jn 3,13-21).

After that Jesus has risen and ascended into Heaven, the Father no longer has anything to reveal about himself. Everything is in Christ. Now it is the Holy Spirit the one that must introduce us and lead us to the whole truth of God, which has been revealed and manifested, rather given in Christ, with Christ and through Christ. But Jesus does not make a discourse of identity of a divine nature to the disciples. It would have been very difficult to understand it. His speech is on works. Can God do greater works than those performed by Jesus? No. Never. Never might God die on the Cross for us. He is God and cannot die. Instead the Son dies for love. Without Christ, the Father’s love would lack this essentiality that gives him absolute perfection. None of the ancient mediators between God and the people has ever seen, what the Apostles see today. Nobody has seen God in them in a perfect way. The Apostles are seeing him in Christ. Christ is the unattainable. He is the Eternal and Infinite Love of the Crucified Father.

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.

This is the “grace” granted by the Father to Christ. Since Jesus allowed the Father to give absolute and unattainable perfection to his love, the Father grants Christ to grant every prayer made in his name. The Father wants the whole world to know who Jesus is in his eyes. He is the universal Mediator through whom He works everything. Answering every prayer, Jesus reveals what the Father has done for him. Everyone must know that the Father hears and answers only the prayers addressed to him through the Son.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels, Saints, make us true body of Christ.