Gospel: John
17:1-11a
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.
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Reflection:
What is the usual method of our prayers? Is it spontaneous
prayer or we follow a certain pattern when we pray? Whichever it is, what is
important is we put our hearts in our prayers before God. For a prayer that connects
to the heart of God is a prayer that originates from our hearts.
We read in our gospel for this Tuesday that Jesus is
praying to His God His Father. It is a personal prayer for Himself and at the same
time a prayer also for His disciples and the people that He dearly loved.
If Jesus prayed to God, we too ought to pray also to
both of them. We pray for our personal petitions before them, for example
prayers for strength to face our daily challenges. Prayers to lighten the loads
that we carry, prayers for us not to store any form of hatred in our hearts and
so forth.
When we pray we also unknowingly allow God to heal us because
through our prayers we allow God to dwell in us. Notice that after we pray from
our hearts where we don’t say a word yet we develop a connection with God. We
feel light, we feel better and refreshed. Why? Because this is the miraculous
effect of our prayers before God.
Let us beseech Jesus to heal us of anything that ails us. And let us beseech God to give us the
gift of connection with Him and His Father whenever we pray. – Marino J.
Dasmarinas
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