Jesus: No One "Has" Eternal Life | Seventh Sunday of Easter

Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. reflects on Christ’s words in John 17: “This is eternal life: that they should know you, the one true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.”

We often think of eternal life as a place or something we possess in the future. But Jesus reveals something deeper. Eternal life is not a location or an object. It is an act—knowing God.

This knowledge is not abstract. It is real union with the living God, made possible through Jesus Christ. And it does not begin later. It begins now.

The Christian life is not simply waiting for heaven. It is already a participation in eternal life, here and now, through knowing and loving God.