Saturday of the Fourth Week of Easter
IRENAEUS:
The Son reveals the knowledge of the Father through his own manifestation. For the manifestation of the Son is the knowledge of the Father, since all things are manifested through the Word.
HILARY OF POITIERS:
It was not the carnal body that he had received by birth from the Virgin that could manifest to them the image and likeness of God. The human aspect that he wore could be no aid toward the mental vision of the incorporeal God. But God was recognized in Christ by those who recognized Christ as the Son on the evidence of the powers of his divine nature. And a recognition of God the Son produces a recognition of God the Father. For the Son is in such a sense the image as to be one in kind with the Father and yet in a way that indicates that the Father is his origin.
Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Jesus has two different ways to present His departure during the last supper in the Gospel of Saint John. He speaks of the mansions or places of the Father and then speaks about how it is good for Him to leave so that the Holy Spirit can come. There is a separation from Christ that is not due to sin, it is due to His own initiative and in order to strengthen our hearts. There is at the same time a leaving of Christ and a coming of the Holy Spirit. If we allow Christ to leave He prepares a place for us in the bosom of the Father. This place in the Bosom of the Father we begin to inhabit already by the new presence of the Holy Spirit.