Festival Eucharist on the Feast of Pentecost
“Philip said to him, ‘Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father”
Overview
Show us. Philip asks Jesus in John 14:8-17, show us God and we will be satisfied. Jesus rolls his eyes and shakes his head. You’ve been seeing God all this time when you have been seeing the power of God at work in me.
Jesus asks us to trust in works of love and justice. This is where we see God at work in the world.
This is still where we see God at work in the world. Christ’s promise to us is that the same divine power that lived in him can live in us.
This is the gift of Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit.
It comes when we are together, together with one another, together in our concern for those in need in our world, together in our faith that God has the power to change the world in and through us.
Pentecost is our patronal festival at CHS; we are named for and dedicated to the Spirit of God. Today above all days we open ourselves to that unity with God, one another, and the world that allows the spirit to move through us.
GOSPEL READING
John 14:8-17
Philip said to him, ‘Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, “Show us the Father”? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves. Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.
‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you for ever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.
