Sunday Meditation: Jesus’ Great Prayer

After Jesus has ascended and the apostles retreat to pray, the lectionary recalls what certainly the apostles recalled closed up in the upper room Jesus great prayer before the Passion.

 

Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said,

“Father, the hour has come.

Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you,

just as you gave him authority over all people,

so that your son may give eternal life to all you gave him.

Now this is eternal life,

that they should know you, the only true God,

and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

I glorified you on earth

by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do.

Now glorify me, Father, with you,

with the glory that I had with you before the world began.

 

“I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world.

They belonged to you, and you gave them to me,

and they have kept your word.

Now they know that everything you gave me is from you,

because the words you gave to me I have given to them,

and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you,

and they have believed that you sent me.

I pray for them.

I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me,

because they are yours, and everything of mine is yours

and everything of yours is mine,

and I have been glorified in them.

And now I will no longer be in the world,

but they are in the world, while I am coming to you.”          

Jn 17:1-11

No matter how I searched, I could not find a good homily or exegesis on YouTube for this week’s Gospel.  So I give you this dramatization of Jesus with his great prayer of John 17. 

 

Here is a verse to meditate on: “Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.”

When Jesus tells you what eternal life is, you should listen.