Prayer Prompt before reading JN 17:20-26: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father is and God the Son so that I may know who I am.
“HOLY FATHER, I PRAY NOT ONLY FOR THEM, BUT ALSO FOR THOSE WHO WILL BELIEVE IN ME THROUGH THEIR WORD, SO THAT THEY MAY ALL BE ONE.” JN 17:20-26
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
In the Gospel today, we continue with Jesus praying with the Apostles at the Last Supper. Jesus Christ’s prayer to the Father today is about unity (It’s so cool when God is praying to Himself). These verses would be good to hang up somewhere and read often. Jesus is teaching us how to pray and what to pray for.
As Jesus is one with the Father in the Holy Trinity, so He is praying for the Apostles and us to be one with Jesus and the Father. Every baptized soul is united to God and we make up the mystical body of Christ; Christ is the head and we are the body guided by the Holy Spirit (if you ask).
Jesus Christ came to marry the human and divine, to unify us with the Trinity and make room for glorified bodies in the spiritual realm. When we bring our souls to God’s grace, pray, love the unlovable, fast, ask for mercy, forgive and ask for forgiveness, live unselfishly we help the body, when we sin and don’t come to God’s mercy and grace we hurt the body.
We have 70-80 years to move on earth as the Mystical body and to strive to be holy remaining in God’s grace which will leave the next generation something special physically and spiritually or a loss of faith, a country in turmoil, and nature that is better or worse off than we left it.
Jesus wants nothing but for every generation to know Him so we may one day be back with the Father. He wants it so much He came to us to die for us. His love is the most powerful thing in the world, it transforms people, and in return transforms the world. Every generation needs saints, are you ready to answer the call?
God has given us everything we need through His Son. Jesus has fulfilled His mission through His death and resurrection, we have began ours with baptism, may we finish it with sainthood by doing the will of God each day.
Today’s challenge: Work for unity with God, your family, your friends, your classmates and coworkers, and your community. How? Be a servant as Jesus was for us in obedience to the Father!
Be a servant, be a saint today!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
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