June 05, 2014 Thursday,
7th Week of Easter
1st Reading: Acts 22:30; 23:6–11
Gospel: Jn 17:20–26
Jesus looked up to heaven and prayed, “I pray not only for these but also for those who through their word will believe in me. May they all be one as you Father are in me and I am in you. May they be one in us; so the world may believe that you have sent me.“I have given them the Glory you have given me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. Thus they shall reach perfection in unity and the world shall know that you have sent me and that I have loved them just as you loved me.“Father, since you have given them to me, I want them to be with me where I am and see the Glory you gave me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. “Righteous Father, the world has not known you but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me. As I revealed your Name to them, so will I continue to reveal it, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I also may be in them?”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
An old woman was overheard talking about four important men in her life. She said: “Each morning I wake up with Mr. ‘Will Power’, then go to see John. Mr. ‘Art Rhytis’ takes me from joint to joint, and at night, I sleep with a good massage from Mr. Ben Gay.”
Life is hard especially when it begins to deteriorate. But Jesus had introduced to human life new possibilities. He made all things new (Rev. 21:5), turned our sorrows into joy (Jer. 31:13) and wiped all tears dry even as we continue to suffer (Rev. 21:4). Jesus opened for us these new possibilities when he gave us the glory that he received from the Father (John 17: 22). In what did this glory consist?
“Glory” means suffering in one of Jesus’ conversation with Peter (John 21:15-18). In that conversation, after Peter confirmed his love for Jesus three times Jesus said to him: “…but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go” (John 21:18). Then John made the parenthetic remark: Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God (John 21:19).”
“Glory” as used in today’s Gospel takes the same meaning of suffering. When Jesus said, “I have given them the Glory you have given me” (John 17:22), he was saying that he has given mankind the possibility of being glorified through sufferings. With this kind of glorification Christ can make all things in our life new, turn our sorrows into joy and wipe our tears away. – Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: [email protected]. Website: www.frdan.org.
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