For 16 May 2021, The Ascension of the Lord, based on John 17:11-19
Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying: ‘Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
About Connie Koch OP
Sister Connie Koch OP is a Dominican Sister of Hope living in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She has taught special children with learning disabilities and served in parish ministry. Presently she is doing spiritual direction, directed retreats, and programs at The Center at Mariandale in Ossining, New York and is the Promoter of Preaching for the Dominican Sisters of Hope.
16 May 2021
Sent in Truth
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Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying: ‘Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
About Connie Koch OP
Sister Connie Koch OP is a Dominican Sister of Hope living in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She has taught special children with learning disabilities and served in parish ministry. Presently she is doing spiritual direction, directed retreats, and programs at The Center at Mariandale in Ossining, New York and is the Promoter of Preaching for the Dominican Sisters of Hope.