Feast of Saints Philip and James, Apostles
「我實實在在告訴你們:凡信我的,我所做的事業,他也要做,並且還要作比這些更大的事業,因為我往父那裏去。你們因我的名無論求父什麼,我必要踐行,為叫父在子身上,獲得光榮。你們若因我的名向我求什麼,我必要踐行。」
若望福音 14:6-14
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在今天的福音中,我們讀到耶穌在最後晚餐中跟門徒說的話。耶穌的話:「我是道路、真理、生命,除非經過我,誰也不能到父那裏去」(若 14:6),是對多默之前的提問的回應。耶穌跟門徒預告祂要離開他們,但門徒就是不明白。斐理伯也叫耶穌把父顯示給他們。從耶穌對斐理伯的回應,可聽得出祂有點失望。耶穌叫門徒相信:祂在父內,父也在祂內。耶穌降生成人,就是要讓我們藉著祂認識天主。
今天是宗徒聖斐理伯與聖雅各伯的慶日。單憑福音裡的記載,我們也許不覺得他們有什麼過人之處,但藉著他們和其他宗徒,基督的福音得以廣傳。作為基督徒,我們跟十二宗徒有同樣的召叫,就是要讓他人知道耶穌就是道路、真理、生命。縱使我們都有很多弱點,但正如聖保祿宗徒所說:「我幾時軟弱,正是我有能力的時候」(格後 12:10)藉著基督,偕同基督,加上聖母和全體聖人聖女的代禱,我們自會有力量承行天主的旨意,把福音傳到普天下去。
John 14:6-14
In today’s Gospel reading, we revisit Jesus’ words to the apostles at the Last Supper. Jesus said: “I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.” He said this in response to Thomas’ question earlier. Jesus told the apostles that He would have to leave them soon, but they did not understand. Philip also asked Jesus to show them the Father. We could tell Jesus’ disappointment from His reply. He asked them to believe that: He is in the Father, and the Father is in Him. The reason why the Son of God became man is so that we can come to know the Father through Him.
Today is the feast of Sts. Philip and James. Based on the Gospel,
we might not think they were any different from us. But it’s precisely through them and the other apostles that the Gospel of Jesus spread throughout the world. As Catholics, we share the same call to preach the message that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We have many weaknesses, but as St. Paul says: “for when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor 12:10) Through Christ, and with Christ, together with the intercession of Our Lady and all angels and saints, we will find the strength to do the will of God, to spread the Gospel far and wide.