Tuesday, 5/30/17
Our daily Gospels from Easter
on have been monologues by Jesus. However, rather than their being exact, word
for word, quotations of Our Lord’s words, they have been John’s paraphrase of
the kind of things he heard Jesus say.
In today’s Gospel John, who knew
Jesus better than anyone, summarizes Our Lord’s final prayer before he left the
Last Supper.
He prayed that we his
followers might have eternal life. And he said, that by eternal life he meant
more than just living on and on; it meant our truly knowing the Father, and the
Son whom he has sent.
Although all the world is
his, and is his concern, yet in his final moments he wanted to pray for his followers than God has turned over to him.
As he prepares to leave this
world, he commissions his followers to carry on in his name.
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