Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Spirit of Love

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 05.29.22 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

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Seventh Sunday of Easter

John 17:20-26

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus prays for our unity with him
and for us to be immersed in God’s love.
“I made known to them your name and I will make it known,
that the love with which you loved me
may be in them and I in them.”

We are not simply supplicants or penitents,
calling to God from without;
we are sons and daughters, friends, calling to him from within.
The Paschal Mystery is intelligible only in the light of the doctrine of the Trinity.
God so loved the world that he sent his only Son,
even to the limits of godforsakenness, even into sin and death,
into the darkest corners of human experience,
in order to find us.

But this acrobatic act of love is possible only if there is
in the very being of God a sender and one that he can send,
only if there is a Father and a Son.
The language Jesus uses—“that they may be brought to perfection as one,
that the world may know that you sent me,
and that you loved them even as you loved me”—
shows us that the Father and the Son are united in love,
and this love is itself the divine life.
Thus there is a Spirit, coequal to the Father and the Son.

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+++ Lifting up his eyes to heaven,
Jesus prayed saying:
“Holy Father, I pray not only for them,
but also for those who will believe
in me through their word,
so that they may all be one,
as you, Father, are in me and I in you,
that they also may be in us,
that the world may believe that you sent me.
And I have given them the glory you gave me,
so that they may be one, as we are one,
I in them and you in me,
that they may be brought to
perfection as one,
that the world may know that you sent me,
and that you loved them even as you loved me.
Father, they are your gift to me.
I wish that where I am they also may
be with me,
that they may see my glory that you
gave me,
because you loved me before the
foundation of the world.
Righteous Father, the world also
does not know you,
but I know you, and they know that
you sent me.
I made known to them your name
and I will make it known,
that the love with which you loved me
may be in them and I in them.”+++