Gospel:
John 17:1-11a
Jesus
raised his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Give glory to
your son, so that your son may glorify you, just as you gave him authority over
all people, so that your son may give eternal life to all you gave him. Now
this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one
whom you sent, Jesus Christ. I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work
that you gave me to do. Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I
had with you before the world began.
“I
revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to
you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that
everything you gave me is from you, because the words you gave to me I have
given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from
you, and they have believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I do not pray
for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours, and
everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been
glorified in them. And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in
the world, while I am coming to you.
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Reflection:
What is
the usual method of our prayers? Is it spontaneous prayer or we follow a
certain pattern when we pray? Whichever it is, what is important is we put our
hearts in our prayers before God. For a prayer that connects with God is a
prayer that originates from our hearts.
We read
in our gospel for this Tuesday that Jesus is praying before God. It is a
personal prayer for Himself and at the same time a prayer also for His
disciples and the people that He dearly loved.
If Jesus
prayed to God, we too ought to pray also to God. We pray for our personal
petitions before Him. For example prayers for strength to face our daily
challenges. Prayers for enlightenment, prayers for us not to store any form of
hatred in our hearts and so forth.
When we
pray we also allow God to heal us with our sickness most especially emotional
and spiritual sickness. This is for the reason that through our prayers we
allow God to dwell and move within us. Notice that after you pray you feel
light and you feel better.
Let us
beseech God to heal us of anything that ails us. And let us beseech God to give
us the grace of connection with Him whenever we pray. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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