that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. Thus they shall reach perfection in unity;
and the world shall know that you have sent me, and that I have loved them, just as you loved me.
Father, since you have given them to me, I want them to be with me where I am, and see the glory you gave me,
for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.
As I revealed your name to them, so will I continue to reveal it, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them,
and I also may be in them.”

REFLECTION:
In the Gospel, Jesus prays that his disciples may be one, just as he is one in them and with the Father.
Our lives as believers, as followers of Jesus, cannot but take on the same contours and patterns as his own life.
We are, after all, his disciples and he is our master. As he lived so should we. As he suffered and died, so will we.
But just as that was not the end of his story, neither will it be ours. If we share in his life, passion and death,
we too will share in his glorious resurrection. Bitterness, anger and resentment are choices, but so are happiness and joy.
A true follower of Jesus makes the choice for the latter and not the former.
He allows the grace and power of God to determine how he will see and regard things, his life, his relationships,
the circumstances and events that come his way, and he will never allow the darker shades of life to ever overcome his trust in Jesus’
promised presence.

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