If the Son dies upon the cross, the heart of the Father does as well. Pondering this, we come to see that the cross, Christ’s hour of glory, reveals the entire Trinity because, as he insisted, there can be no separation, no distance, between Father and Son. For the evangelist, it is the hour of glory because on the cross the Son becomes the clearest, the deepest revelation of the Father’s glory. John uses to describe the passion of Jesus, closes with his death. Jesus’ “Hour of Glory,” the paradoxical term St. He is the manifestation, the very expression, of the Father. There are parents who forget who they were before they became parents lovers who lose their identity in the beloved. He is the very expression of the Father (Jn 14:9).įor the evangelist, it is the hour of glory because on the cross the Son becomes the clearest, the deepest revelation of the Father’s glory.Įven though in this Gospel Jesus makes the Mosaic name for God his own seven times-I am-the Son seems to have no personal identity apart from the mission he receives from his Father.
He has come among us to do the will of the Father (Jn 6:38). In the Fourth Gospel, Jesus dies oblivious of himself because his focus has always been beyond himself.
“It is finished.”Įven in the Greek, Τετέλεσται, the subject “it” (present not as a separate word but within the ending of the verb) raises the question, “What is finished?” What is this “it”? Would it not make more sense for Jesus to say, “I am finished?” Over this altar, in gold, gothic letters against an oak panel, is the Latin inscription Consummatum est, the last words Jesus speaks in the Gospel of St. Such stability seems excessive, but the deepest truths dawn ever so slowly. I now preside at the same altar I frequented as a child.
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