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CATHOLIC MASS: Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter 5.19.15 – Video, Scripture, Links

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“Jesus said to His Disciples: ‘When the Advocate comes Whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify to Me. … you also testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning. …'”

 Mass Readings 5.19.15 – FIRST READING: Acts of the Apostles 20:17-27 – PSALM 68:10-11, 20-21 – GOSPEL: John 17:1-11A … FIND A MASS: MassTimes.org – FIND A MASS: TheCatholicDirectory.com

 

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RESPONSORIAL PSALM

PSALM 68:10-11, 20-21

Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth.

GOSPEL

GOSPEL: John 17:1-11A

We see Jesus interacting with God the Father through vocal prayer, and we encounter some of the deep Mysteries of the Holy Trinity.

Jesus invites us to Eternal Life.

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.

Eternal Life is to know God.

Jesus gave Glory to God the Father by doing the Work the Father gave Him to do.

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.

Note that Christ Himself references the fact that He is Co-Eternal with the Father.  While Christ was Incarnate in the Womb of the Virgin Mary two thousand years ago, He existed with God the Father since before the world began.  Indeed, as the Creed confesses, it was through Christ that all Creation came into Being.

We are called to belong to Christ, and in turn belong to God the Father.  Christ reveals to His Followers the Father’s Name and the Father’s Words.

Christ’s Followers act in the world, while Christ declares in this passage that He is coming to the Father.

We show that we belong to God by keeping His Word and accepting God’s Word.

‘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.
…  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.
… they are Yours, and everything of Mine is Yours
and everything of Yours is Mine,
and I have been Glorified in them.
…now I will no longer be in the world,
but they are in the world, while I am coming to You.”

Recall how Jesus says He gives Glory to the Father by doing the Work the Father gave Him, while Jesus is in the world.

Here, Jesus talks of how His Followers are in the world.  Are we not called to give Glory to God by doing the Work that God gives us to do?

FIRST READING

FIRST READING: Acts of the Apostles 20:17-27

Saint Paul confesses to the presbyters of the Church at Ephesus that he feels called to go to Jerusalem, and to continue persevering in carrying his Mission, even in the face of hardship and persecution.

‘… I served the Lord with all humility
and with the tears and trials that came to me
… and I did not at all shrink from telling you
what was for your benefit,
or from teaching you in public or in your homes.
I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeks
to repentance before God and to faith in our Lord Jesus.
… compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem.
What will happen to me there I do not know,
except that in one city after another
the Holy Spirit has been warning me
that imprisonment and hardships await me.
Yet I consider life of no importance to me,
if only I may finish my course
and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus,
to bear witness to the Gospel of God’s grace.

Even though Paul believes that he will never see them again, he nevertheless feels that he was done what he could to Proclaim the Gospel to them without holding back.

 

LINKS & RESOURCES

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