Wednesday - 6th Week of Easter
Gospel – John 16: 12-15
Make Me Proud!
St. Joseph Church, Nazareth
Over the years since my Dad’s passing, there have been a number of events in my life (Ordination, a heartfelt homily or just being a good husband, son or grandfather) where Ginger would say to me “Your Dad would be so proud of you.”
I’d like to think that was true; I hope it is! Many are the times when I would look up into the heavens and wonder – did you see that, Dad? Am I making you proud? There are certainly moments when I realize I sound/act just like my Dad, especially my corny punny sense of humor. And that makes me smile! And so I wonder how much of my Dad is in me! His compassion, his sense of humor, his love of family, his self-sacrifice and his calm in the midst of the storm! And now I guess I have a couple more ‘parents’ looking out for me from above. And I certainly hope I am making them proud as well. I certainly hope that there is a good deal of their qualities living on in my life.
Which leads me to today’s Gospel. “Everything that the Father has is mine.” It echoes Jesus’ words earlier in John – I am in the Father and the Father is in Me! And so I wonder too – how much of the Father (in heaven) is in me! In each of us? How loving and compassionate are we? How truthful and respectful? How self-sacrificing? How just and honest? How forgiving? How often do we look up into the heavens and wonder – is our heavenly Father proud of me! How much of Our Father is in us?
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