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.
“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.
Jesus Christ’s prayer to the Father today is about unity (It’s so cool when God is praying to Himself). He is still praying with the Apostles at the Last Supper. 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. 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 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. 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, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
Hey Papa G! I just wanted to thank you for still doing thewayjc! You live out what you teach and it changes lives. Thank you for being the servant you hope we all strive to be! I especially love the paragraph about how we help/hurt the body-powerful! Thanks again!
Thanks Maddie! I do thewayjc as a way to pray and keep a personal relationship with Jesus going! This is how I fell in love with Jesus and how He communicates with me. When you have a spiritual experience, it changes everything! Mine came in reading the daily Gospel and journaling what Jesus was trying to reveal to me, a lesson on life, or how I could apply this Scripture to my daily life. The Holy Spirit then convicted me to share this experience through thewayjc platform. I just asked God how I could try to stay in touch with my students and try to continue to motivate them. “You live out what you teach and it changes lives” That is about as close I can get to the greatest compliment a teacher can receive! I appreciate your kind words and you taking the time to say thank you. You made my day!!!!