Gospel:
John 17:20-26
Lifting
up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying: “I pray not only for these, but
also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all
be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us,
that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory
you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me,
that they may be brought to perfection as one that the world may know that you
sent me and that you loved them even as you loved me. Father, they are your
gift to me. I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see
my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the foundation of the
world. Righteous Father, the world also does not know you but I know you, and
they know that you sent me I made known to them your name and I will make it
known that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them.
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Reflection:
A woman
engaged herself to caring for the poor of her community. She did this out of
her concern for them, funds were hard to come by at times. Yet she was able to
feed and nourish them because she believed that Jesus would always be there for
them.
We can
always lean on Jesus all the time. He is always there ever ready to help us.
Jesus loves us so much that He gave His very life for us on the cross. By doing
so Jesus completed the mission that was given to Him by God. For our sake God
gave the life of His only begotten son.
God is
never absent in our lives no matter who we are and no matter what we have done.
He is always there ever ready to listen to us. God manifested Himself to us
through Jesus so that we could reach out to Him anytime easily. This is the
reason why we should not think twice of calling for His help anytime.
Yet there
is also a responsibility that rest on our shoulders. And this responsibility is
to pay forward this infinite love of God. For the reason that our faith in God
is never complete and it will never grow and mature unless we learn to share
it. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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