Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
(Acts 13:26-33;
John 14:1-6)
The disciples’
hearts are troubled because Jesus is leaving them. They have trusted him not only as the Son of
God but as their intimate friend. They wonder
how they can get along without him.
For all
their love of him, however, the disciples miss the purpose of his coming. Jesus must give himself as an offering to God
for sin. Only in this way can they and
everyone else come to the fullness of life.
He, therefore, is the way because he proclaims the truth of the Father which
is life in the full. He is also the same
life because he and the Father are one. One
can think of Jesus as a roadmap whose directions truly lead to God in whose
company the fullness of life is experienced.
Jesus has
returned to us in the sacraments. He lives
in the Church to which Baptism admits us and in which the Eucharist keeps
us. Remaining close to him in the Church
we grow in virtue until we see God face to face.
