6/8/11 cblog IMPORTANCE of UNITY ; ST columban 830a "...paul wants to ..remind us..also Jesus wants to remind us ..father..truth.in our world today..great need for unity..experience unity when we pray..ask lord to continue to bless us..share eucharist ..bring love into home..work..christ continue to grow & spread into the world..."
Acts 20:28-38 At Miletus, Paul spoke to the presbyters of the Church of Ephesus:“Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, I know that after my departure savage wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock. And from your own group, men will come forward perverting the truth to draw the disciples away after them. So be vigilant and remember that for three years, night and day I unceasingly admonished each of you with tears And now I commend you to God and to that gracious word of his that can build you up and give you the inheritance among all who are consecrated. I have never wanted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing. You know well that these very hands have served my needs and my companions In every way I have shown you that by hard work of that sort we must help the weak, and keep in mind the words of the Lord Jesus who himself said‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” When he had finished speaking he knelt down and prayed with them all They were all weeping loudly as they threw their arms around Paul and kissed him, for they were deeply distressed that he had said that they would never see his face again. Then they escorted him to the ship
R. (33a) Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth
John 17.11b-19 "Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying:“Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely. I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth Your word is truth As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth
