Gospel Lesson for the Week
May 16, 2010
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SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
O N E
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That they may all be one.
As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that
the world may believe that you have sent me.
--- John 17:21
O N E
All one, that
was your goal,
when on that
fateful night,
you shared with
your friends your plans.
The Goal:
a oneness-in-diversity,
replicating the
unity of God.
Three in One
and One in Three.
The Purpose:
that all the world
may trust in
You.
Lord, when I
behold this world,
so fiercely
fragmented,
with the
fragmentation
wrought often in your name,
I weep,
as you wept
over the
made desolate
by our lovelessness.
Lord, leave me
not in my tears.
Grant me
strength.
Grant to me the
vision.
Be my vision,
that I may go
forth into this
fragmented world,
to make known your love,
the love with which you have loved me.
May that love be in them, and in us all,
as you are in your Father
and your Father in you.
All One.
--- rvc
(Original version published, 5/20/07)
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