94th Meditation on God the Father
According to the Gospel account, while Jesus was on Mount Tabor with Peter, James and John, He was transfigured before them. Then out of a cloud came the voice of the Father saying to them:
“This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; Listen to Him.” (Mt 17:5b)
When the disciples heard the voice of the Father, they were filled with fear, and the Lord had to lift them up, saying to them, “Do not be afraid” (Mt 17:7).
We too should not be afraid of the voice of the Father. The more we know Him, the more we will understand Him. We must even long for and seek His voice, wait for Him to speak to us and, above all, listen to his Son. Through Him – as well as through the authentic Magisterium of the Church – the Father speaks to us directly.
The Father loves His Son and is always pleased with Him. The Son never denied Him even the slightest desire and was obedient to Him even unto death (Phil 2:8). Jesus’ greatest desire was to glorify the Father by carrying out the work that He had given Him to do (Jn 17:4).
In His Son, the Father has called us to be His children (Eph 1:5), so that He is also pleased with us. When, guided by the Holy Spirit, we listen to His Son and carry out the work entrusted to us, His gaze rests on us with pleasure. He loves us as His only begotten Son, and it is the Holy Spirit who makes us receptive to this love, so that it can fill us completely.
When all this happens in us, people can listen to our testimony, because what we will tell them will be nothing other than what Jesus himself announced to men.