Saturday of Week 4 of Eastertide - John 14: 7-14

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

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John 14: 7-14 - 'To have seen me is to have seen the Father.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 470 (in 'How is the Son of God Man?') - The Son of God therefore communicates to his humanity his own personal mode of existence in the Trinity. In his soul as in his body, Christ thus expresses humanly the divine ways of the Trinity (abbreviated).

- 516 (in 'Characteristics common to Jesus' ministry') - Christ's whole earthly life - his words and deeds, his silences and sufferings, indeed his manner of being and speaking - is Revelation of the Father. Jesus can say: "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father", and the Father can say: "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!" Because our Lord became man in order to do his Father's will, even the least characteristics of his mysteries manifest "God's love. . . among us".

- 2614 (in 'Jesus teaches us how to pray') - When Jesus openly entrusts to his disciples the mystery of prayer to the Father, he reveals to them what their prayer and ours must be, once he has returned to the Father in his glorified humanity. What is new is to "ask in his name." Faith in the Son introduces the disciples into the knowledge of the Father, because Jesus is "the way, and the truth, and the life" (abbreviated).

- 2633 (in 'Prayer of Petition') - When we share in God's saving love, we understand that every need can become the object of petition. Christ, who assumed all things in order to redeem all things, is glorified by what we ask the Father in his name (abbreviated).

- 2815 (in 'The Seven Petitions') - Prayer to our Father is our prayer, if it is prayed in the name of Jesus (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to our logical Bible study. We're continuing in the farewell discourse in
0:19.4	John chapter 13 onwards.
0:21.8	Today we're looking at John chapter 14 versus 7 to 14.
0:26.7	So as always, we want to look at the text, start by reading it and then dive into the literal sense of the text.
0:33.5	What did it probably mean in the mind of the original author as far as we can get to that?
0:39.9	So here's the reading for today.
0:42.5	Jesus said to his disciples,
0:44.5	If you know me, you know my father too.
0:48.5	From this moment, you know him and have seen him.
0:53.9	Philip said, Lord, let us see the Father and then we shall be satisfied.
0:59.5	Have I been with you all this time, Philip? said Jesus to him, and you still do not know me.
1:06.4	To have seen me is to have seen the Father. So how can you say, let us see the father? Do you not believe
1:13.5	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.
1:24.6	It is the father living in me who is doing this work.
1:30.3	You must believe me when I say that I am in the father and the father is in me.
1:36.3	I believe it on the evidence of this work, if for no other reason.
1:40.3	I tell you most solemnly, whoever believes in me will perform the same works as I do myself.
1:48.7	He will perform even greater works because I am going to the father.
1:53.8	Whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the father may be glorified in the sun.
2:00.5	If you ask for anything in my name, I will do it.
2:05.6	So let's have a look at this gospel text.
2:08.6	So the context here, what's been happening, we're in the Last Supper.
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