The Only Way to the Father...

Jesus is the bread of life and all who know Him know God, for one can only know God through the Son. This is a unique idea that is altogether bothersome and altogether glorious.

At times to believe and not be able to know is a burdensome idea. We who seek the One God have been troubled throughout time to know Him. We are trying to comprehend that which is incomprehensible and therefor become frustrated. It is in each and every one of us a desire to the know the Lord God, but to do so is impossible without the intervention of the three in one.

Jesus Christ is Lord God and to know Jesus is to know God. Jesus has been given to us mortals as a means to understand the Father. Salvation reigns through the word and Jesus is the word.

In other words, consider God the father is a distant leader, whom country is grand. Then suppose you are a peasant living in a land that has nothing. If someone comes and tells you of this great land far away, you would have no means to truly understand the wonder of it. It all you have ever seen have been shacks, how could you understand a Skyscraper? But then one comes who has with him a picture book that explains the lands faraway not with words but with pictures. You are able to see the greatness of the land faraway and understand better what it is.

You still can't totally understand the scope of the land, but you understand better because of the Word made flesh. Jesus is our guide in the knowing of God, and the men of the Church whom help us to understand the book.

Now it is possible to know Jesus without knowing the Church, but once you begin to understand what Jesus is saying to you, you know that he wishes for you to worship and glorify the Father in Church. He also tells you to do certain things to remember Him and His great works, which need a holy man to perform the blessings in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Why do we need the Catholic Church? Because Jesus told us to build it and worship at it. He told us the only way to God is through the Son and also how to please the Son. He told us to worship Him and remember Him through the Eucharist and that is what we Catholics do.