We celebrate today two of the founding Fathers of our Church - Philip and James. Philip appears right at the beginning of John's gospel and comes across as a simple and innocent person. We can be thankful for the question he asks in today's Gospel. Jesus had told Thomas that He was the Way, Truth and Life. Jesus further says that whoever sees Him sees the Father. Philip is not satisfied: "Let us see the Father, and then we will be happy." It is then that Jesus emphasises that in seeing Jesus, they are also seeing the Father. Everything that God is can be seen in Jesus, although veiled and limited by His humanity. To model our own human lives on that of Jesus is to grow more and more into the likeness of God Himself: growing in truth and love and life. We might also add that in each of our brothers and sisters we are to find, love and serve Jesus. In doing so we also find, love and serve God Himself. How we are to do that in a practical way is very well presented in the Letter that today's other Apostle, James, wrote. We could do well to read it today.