Greetings on this the Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Readings: Acts 20:28-38; PS 68:29-30, 33-35a, 35bc-36ab; Jn 17:11b-19
Notes
Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere mutual love, love one another intensely from a pure heart (1 PTR 1:22).
Summary
Unity in friendship and mutual love is the hallmark of an actual healthy relationship. Possession and expectation are subordinate and inferior bonding elements.
Reflection
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 (Jn 17:12ab).
Personal Reflection
You know you love someone when their pain is your pain and their joy is your joy. You know you love someone that where they are you wish to be. Some of the best cinematic and novel-poem love stories include a scene of an epiphany of love either in a crisis or in a ‘coming out’ of one sort or another.
The gospel narrative has the same universal appeal.
Fall in love.
First Reading
And now I commend you to God and to that gracious word of his that can build you up and give you the inheritance among all who are consecrated.
Responsorial
Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth.
Gospel Acclamation
Your word, O Lord, is truth; consecrate us in the truth.
Gospel
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.
Peace be with you,
Deacon Gerry