Miguel Ángel Fuentes – The Father Revealed by Jesus Christ

The Father was the heart of Jesus’ preaching; the Father
called Him, “My Beloved Son”. Have all of us Christians
understood it this way? Have we understood Jesus Christ’s
message? And if our answer to that question is no, we
should not think it strange to find ourselves surrounded
by confused orphans who are bitter at life! In the third
century, Saint Hippolytus wrote: “Know yourself; i.e., discover
God within yourself, for He has formed you after His own
image” (Refutation of All Heresies, Bk. 10, 33-34). We could
add that you cast self-knowledge aside when you don’t
know the God who made you; you don’t know the God
who made you when you have only an abstract, cold, and
distant knowledge of Him, ignorant of His living presence
in the depths of your soul and when you lack a living and
filial contact with Him. If the absence of an earthly father
or mother is so harmful in the spiritual and psychological
development of every human being, a good education of
our divine filiation can mature the hearts of many of those
who don’t know themselves because they don’t know
God or, even if they do know Him, don’t have an intimate
relationship with Him. Therefore, herein lies the simple
objective of the few pages that follow: to try to present
some texts in which Jesus uncovers for us His thoughts
about the Heavenly Father.