A time of Lexio devena for the discerning heart.

Saturday of the fourth week of Easter.

As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly.

For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of this day to the Lord. Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you.

You take over.

become aware that he is with you,

looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within your heart.

A reading from the Gospel of John, chapter 14, verses 7 through 14.

Jesus said to his disciples,

If you know me, you know my father too.

From this moment you know him and have seen him.

Philip said, Lord, let us see the Father, and then we shall be satisfied.

Have I been with you all this time, Philip, said Jesus to him, and you still do not know me?

To have seen me is to have seen the Father.

So how can you say, let us see the Father?

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me?

The words I say to you, I do not speak as from myself.

It is the Father living in me who is doing this work.

You must believe me when I say that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, believe it on the

evidence of this work if for no other reason. I tell you most solemnly, whoever believes in me

will perform the same works as I do myself, he will perform even greater works, because I am

going to the Father. Whatever you ask for in my name I will do

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