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If you know me, you know my Father too. Have I been with you all this time and you still do not know me? 1 The problem, for the disciples, seems to be with Jesus’ experience of self. To have seen me is to have seen the Father. 1 Jesus does not identify with what they are … Continue reading You still do not know me?

a name that always points away from him and beyond him In St John’s gospel Christ says of himself: The son can do nothing of his own accord. This seems to rob the Son of all power; He has nothing of his own; precisely because he is the Son he can only operate by virtue … Continue reading I and the Father are One

Eternal being as the ground of my own being. Aside from eternal being, nothing exists – that is truly in full possession of being. My own being, as I know it and as I know myself in it, is null and void; I am not by myself and by myself I am nothing; at every … Continue reading Eternal Being

Christ possessed the beatific vision precisely because no human “I” separated him from God. Thus Christ directly beheld God’s very being. Conversely, the blessed Virgin Mary did have a human “I”. As a totally human creature, she was a human person. As such, she would say, “I wish, I love or I do”, on the basis … Continue reading Mystical Death