Directions

1. Have students read the Gospel passage, or read it aloud to your students, and then answer the focus questions. You may have students answer them on their own or you may discuss them together as a class.
2. Then, have your students complete the My Father’s House activity on their own.
3. When they have finished, call on a few students to share their answers.

Answer Key

1. That He will…
   
   1. Prepare a place for them
   2. Will return to take them there
   3. If you know Him, then you will know the Father
   4. Whoever believes in Him will do the works that He does, and will do greater ones than these
2. Accept reasoned answers
3. Thomas asks: "Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?" Jesus answers: “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
4. Accept reasoned answers
5. Philip says: "Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us." Jesus replies: "Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.
6. Jesus is making clear one aspect of the Trinity. He and the Father are one. There is only one God. Three distinct Persons but only one God. Jesus is emphasizing what we believe about the Trinity. If we know Him then we know the Father and also the Holy Spirit.
7. Accept reasoned answers.
8. Accept reasoned answers.

Directions

• Read the Gospel passage aloud to your students as they follow along. Then discuss the focus and reflection questions with them.
• Then, have your students complete the My Father’s House and My Home In Heaven activities.

Answer Key

1. To His Father’s House/to His Father.
2. He says "Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?"
3. Jesus says to Thomas “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
4. Anyone who sees Jesus sees the God the Father, because they are one.