Sunday Evangelium - Totus2us

Fr Andrew: "When Jesus says in today's Gospel "I have come that they may have life and have it to the full" the word he uses is not life in the usual sense. The word he uses is reserved in the Gospel for the life of grace, the life of the Holy Trinity and this life is why Jesus is unique. God in the pagan world and indeed in many religions today was perceived as remote and inscrutable, at best a source of benefits but unknowable in himself. The message of the Gospel is that God has bridged this unthinkable abyss by coming among us as a man. Through Jesus alone it has become possible to know God personally, to become children of God and that is why the Our Father is a uniquely Christian prayer. To know and to love God in this way is to taste eternal life already, in a state of pilgrimage in this life and in a state of glory in the next. Since the incarnation is unique, there is only one gate to the sheepfold." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com