Daily Gospel Reflection for May 7, 2023

Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel.

Today's Gospel: John 14:1-12

When I met my husband through Catholic Campus Ministries, I recall an ice breaker for which we went around the room and answered who our confirmation saint was and why. “Doubting Thomas!” my husband proclaimed. I admit, I thought to myself, “really?” I had never known anyone to have a special devotion to St. Thomas. After all, he continuously questioned our Lord. “I like that about him,” my now-husband continued, “He always wanted to learn and get to know God more. I struggle with always wanting to ask ‘why’ as well. I understand that about him.”

Throughout Scripture we are instructed to have childlike faith. If there is one thing my children do, they ask questions. Enthusiastically and often. Not to pester but to gain knowledge, as my husband pointed out. In today’s Gospel, Thomas does just that.

“Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?”

From that question comes one of the most quoted verses in Christianity:

“I am the way and the truth and the life.”

Jesus’s words do not simply offer a way to grow in relationship with God, or even a truth about God. Rather, He makes it clear in this Gospel that He is the way. That there is no truth about God that can be revealed without Him. That they are intertwined, never to be separated.

St. Philip continues the discussion by asking Jesus to show him the Father.

“Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip?”

Once more Jesus is patient and explains that He and the Father are one. Yet this question also brings to mind our own personal relationship with Jesus. Who is He to us? Who do we know Him to be? Have we spent our lives walking alongside Him without truly knowing Him?

Ponder:

Today, ask yourself: Who do I know Jesus to be? Is He simply a teacher, a friend, a confidant, or is He Lord of Heaven and Earth, of my life?

Pray:

Lord, please help me to know You more fully. To welcome You into my life and to follow You.

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