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 your prayers? Is it spontaneous prayer or you
follow a certain pattern when you pray? Whichever it is, what is important is
you put your heart in your prayers before God. For a prayer that connects with
God is a prayer that originates from your heart.
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.
We also become one with God when we pray. We also allow God to heal us
from 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. Why?
Because life without God in this world is pure emptiness. – Marino J.
Dasmarinas
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