Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.
This sounds like a passage from John’s Gospel. Jesus praises his Father in front of his disciples. The Son praises the Father for sharing everything that the Father has with the Son.
Then the Son addresses the disciples. It is important that they know this relationship between Father and Son. It is also important that they know that they are not in charge, but that the Son remans in charge. Jesus has inherited, in a way, everything of the Father’s, yet the Father and the Son are one.
The only reason the disciples and we know about the Son is that the Father has revealed to us the Son. The only reason we know about the Father is that the Son has revealed to us the Father.
How does this work? God comes to us and says, “I am Father; this is my Son.” We look at the Son and see how closely the two resemble each other. We say, “We see the Son; he resembles you. Therefore, you must be the Father.”
The revelation is much simpler than this, but it is only complicatedly simple. Jesus put it this way, “No one knows the Son except the Father and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”
Jesus praised the Father for reveling this to the childlike, a code term for the believers. We, in turn, praise the Father for being Father and making us into children of God. Jesus wishes us to go out and reveal to others the mystery of God as Father and as Son. If we do not share, we are not childlike because the childlike are not selfish but share what they have received.