Posted by The WORD in other words (2009) by Fr. Eduardo Rocha, SVD – Vice-Provincial, Cebu City
Thursday 7th Week of Easter
In our Gospel today, we encounter Jesus engrossed in praying to His Father. The content of his prayer is so deep because he expresses the intimate relationship between Him and the Father. In that state of intimacy Jesus is asking the Father that They share the same intimacy with us. This shows how Jesus loves us so much.
Since Jesus and the Father are One, we can say that the love given to us by Jesus is the perfect love which can only come from Jesus and the Father all together.
In that prayer, it is interesting to note that Jesus is thanking the Father for giving Him to us as a gift. We are treasured very much by Jesus for He wanted us to be with him where ever he would be.
This would somehow explain to us clearly why Jesus died for all of us. We are so dear to Jesus that through his death and resurrection, he shared with us his glory. This then gives us the hope that we too will rise also from our death to attain perfection of our union with Jesus and the Father and enter God’s Kingdom.
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