a place for you. After I have gone and prepared a place for you, I shall come again
and take you to me, so that where I am, you also may be. Yet you know the way
where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going;
how can we know the way?” Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one
comes to the Father but through me.
Reflect
“Jesus is love.” Laudato Si’ recognizes how troublesome our world today is.
Pope Francis cautions us that this feeling of uncertainty may result to selfishness.
He says, “The current global situation engenders a feeling of instability and
uncertainty, which in turn becomes ‘a seedbed of collective selfishness’.” (LS
204). Where else shall we find our security but in Jesus? In today’s Gospel,
the very first invitation of Jesus is for us not to be troubled. We are called
to have faith in him. He said that there are many dwelling places in his
Father’s house. One of the reasons why Jesus had to leave his disciples was
for him to prepare them dwelling places. Why? Because Jesus did not want his
followers to be separated from him. Where Jesus is, there his disciples must
also be. Jesus is the only security of those who follow him. And wherever Jesus
is, there is love. Jesus wills that love will never depart from those who follow
him. Otherwise, there will be selfishness. Moreover, collective selfishness leads
to collective destruction. Let us care for our common home. Let us not be
selfish. Let us abide in Jesus’ love.
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