" I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us." John 17:11-19

Today's Readings

 

" I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us."

John 17:11-19

 

¹¹ I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us.

¹² While I was with them, I kept those you had given me true to your name. I have watched over them and not one is lost except one who was destined to be lost, and this was to fulfil the scriptures.

¹³ But now I am coming to you and I say these things in the world to share my joy with them to the full.

¹⁴ I passed your word on to them, and the world hated them, because they belong to the world no more than I belong to the world.

¹⁵ I am not asking you to remove them from the world, but to protect them from the Evil One.

¹⁶ They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

¹⁷ Consecrate them in the truth; your word is truth.

¹⁸ As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world,

¹⁹ and for their sake I consecrate myself so that they too may be consecrated in truth.