Our Father

For the past week, and up until just a couple days before Pentecost, the Gospel readings for daily Mass are from John?s recounting of the Last Supper. Here Jesus repeatedly speaks about, and prays to, ?the Father.? I want to step back and reflect on that for a minute.

God is completely and utterly beyond us. Take a second and try to imagine something, anything, that isn?t bound by space, time, and matter. We can?t do it. God created these things that bind even our wildest imaginations. Time is a creature of God like a giraffe is a creature of God. This is what we mean when we talk of God?s transcendence.?

God is that far beyond us that the only way we could possibly know anything about him is if he reveals himself to us. The main sources for this self-revelation of God are Scripture, Tradition, and, especially, Jesus himself. And the primary image that God chooses to reveal himself is as Father. The God who willed the universe into existence wants us to see him as Father, and not just a Father, but our Father.

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