Homily for Friday
5th Week of Lent
March 22, 2023
John 10: 31-42
Provincial house, New Rochelle
“Is
it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods’”?” (John 10: 34).
The
purpose of the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus was to make men
and women children of God, to restore to us the divine image that God created
in the beginning.
The Gate of Heaven
(Andrea di Bonaiuto)
The
Fathers of the Church taught that God became man in order that man might become
God—not ontologically, of course, but by adoption. St. John writes that we are God’s children
now; what we shall later be hasn’t been revealed. But we shall be like him, for we shall see
him as he is (1 John 3:2)—the God partially revealed to us by God the Son.
In
the 2d Eucharistic Prayer we pray that we may be coheirs with Christ. We shall share in his glory, for he makes of
his followers his own brothers and sisters, children of God, divine offspring.
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