Friday, Easter III: “I am the way and the truth and the life"

No one comes to the Father except through me.

-- Jn 14:1-6

The Word became flesh to be our model of holiness: "Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me." "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me." On the mountain of the Transfiguration, the Father commands: "Listen to him!" Jesus is the model for the Beatitudes and the norm of the new law: "Love one another as I have loved you." This love implies an effective offering of oneself, after his example.

-- CCC 459

Friday, Lent Wk 4: "You have faith in God"

have faith also in me.

-- Jn 14:1-6

For a Christian, believing in God cannot be separated from believing in the One he sent, his "beloved Son", in whom the Father is "well pleased"; God tells us to listen to him. The Lord himself said to his disciples: "Believe in God, believe also in me." We can believe in Jesus Christ because he is himself God, the Word made flesh: "No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known." Because he "has seen the Father", Jesus Christ is the only one who knows him and can reveal him.

-- CCC 151

Saints of God:

• Adjutor
• Eutropius of Saintes
• Maximus of Rome
• Quirinus of Neuss
• Suitbert the Younger
• Saint Pope Pius V

pray for us.

Art: El Greco, Pope St. Pius V.