Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - Believing and Doing

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 5-3-2021 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

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FEAST OF SAINTS PHILIP AND JAMES, APOSTLES

JOHN 14:6–14

Friends, today we read the wonderful and mysterious passage from the fourteenth chapter of John’s Gospel. The disciples are gathered around Jesus at the Last Supper, abiding in intimacy with him, asking questions and seeking wisdom.

Then listen to Jesus’ words: "If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him." Paul refers to Jesus as the "icon of the invisible God." What both Jesus and Paul are saying is that Jesus’ words are the Father’s words and his deeds are the Father’s deeds.

Philip, one of the first disciples chosen, still doesn’t get this. He says, "Master, show us the Father." What he missed was the humility of the Logos: "The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works." Neither the words nor the deeds of Jesus are "his own." They are received from the Father.

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+++"Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father. And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.”+++

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[6] Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me. John 14

Yet Bobby Barron still hopes no one goes to Hell, even those who reject Jesus Christ as God.

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To hope and pray that others do not go to hell is charitable and a worthy attitude.

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But to hope no one is in, or will go to, Hell is rejecting Christ’s very words in the Gospels.

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Do you believe in the Miracle of Fatima, where the Blessed Mother revealed to the three shepherd children a frightening vision of the souls in Hell?

I know it’s a private revelation and no one is bound to accept it. But do you, Marchmain, accept the revelations and miracles of Fatima?

Have you ever heard of one of the short Fatima prayers that goes like this:

“Oh, My Jesus, forgive us our sins. Lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in the most need of thy mercy.”

Many Catholics pray this prayer after every decade of the Holy Rosary. I don’t know any Catholic who prays or hopes any souls, specific or in general, go to Hell.

Do you claim some do?

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And please note how the Fatima prayer, “lead all souls to Heaven” is similar to Our Lord’s prayer, “lead us not into temptation”.

Yet our Humble Jorge took it upon himself to change those very words.

In Italy, it’s no longer our Lord’s Prayer. Now it’s Jorge’s Prayer.

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They have also Modified in France as well....yes it is wrong and totally misleading And Unscriptural...That was Trojan horse of the vernacular Mass.... being able to re- translate.... The Latin cannot be modified as anyone wishes... it falls to the Clergy to be courageous enough to stay true...
. but European Church is circling the drain- having lost relevance and meaningfulness to the moral relativism engulfing Europe

On to America....

But what does THIS HAVE TO DO WITH TODAYS GOSPEL READING?

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See Post #2.

No man cometh to the Father, but by me. John 14