What is distinctive about our faith as Christians?
We do not believe in a system of ideas or even in a higher ethics: we believe in a person, who gives life “a new horizon and a decisive direction” (Benedict XVI).
John’s Gospel makes this clear with its great I am sentences, one of which we hear today: “I am the gate.”
Naturally, we think the gate to what?
The gate to life to the full. The risk today is to set our expectations low, to be happy with less. But the Gospel calls not to be half alive, but to be fully alive.
Let us enter by the gate himself, because the gate to life is always open.
Prayer
Often, loving Lord, we find ourselves
astray and defenceless.
Let us recognise your voice, calling us one by one
as you call us to follow you.
