Your words today, O Lord Jesus Christ are so timely, so perfectly meant for us these days: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me" (Jn.14:1).
Forgive us, dear Jesus, in believing so much with ourselves, forgetting you and God in the process; help us accept the many realities in life, help us to move on with life, and most of all, stop from being bitter and being unkind with others; make us realize we cannot have the truth when we are apart from you.
It is so timely that on this 105th anniversary of the first apparition of your Mother the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal that our gospel is very much the same truth she had revealed to the three children and to the world: that you alone, Jesus is the true reality in this life for you are "the way and the truth and the life, that no one comes to the Father except through you" (Jn.14:6).
It was at Fatima where your Mother told us how your way is always accessible and leads to fulfillment, so unlike our many ways in this world that change and disappear, sometimes become obsolete. It was at Fatima where your Mother assured us too that there is no other way nor a secret road in life except you, dear Jesus. It was at Fatima where Mary brought us back to reality of you Lord Jesus that no one comes to Father except through you.
Help us dear Jesus, through our Lady of Fatima, to return to you again in the sacraments of Penance and Eucharist, to trust in you again, to follow your Person as the way, the truth, and the life. Amen.
