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Theo Tigno•
5/23/2007 7:12 am
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Wednesday in the Seventh Week of Easter |
John 17: 11b-19
Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying: "Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely. I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth."
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is in thanksgiving for a friend of mine who recently found out that she does not have a cancerous genetic mutation.
As I read through today's reading, two themes are very clear to me: unity and evangelization. Both rely on us being consecrated in "truth."
In today's world, we have forsaken truth for experience. While it is true that we experience is true to us, there is a greater truth that exists beyond what we experience. A man who is addicted to heroin will "experience" a different truth from someone who does not have that addiction.
It is essential, then, to do as Jesus does in today's reading: lift up our eyes to heaven. We rely on God for what is true. We look to God to see what is true about ourselves, because we all have a distorted view of who we are. We look to God to see what is true about how we relate to others so that we can recognize the dignity they have, both as an unrepeatable child of God and in union with them as part of The Body of Christ.
Today, let us be consecrated in truth so that we can live in union with God and our neighbor, and so that we can spread the Gospel message. Take care and God Bless.
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