Praying together
From today’s Scripture: “The one who sent me is with me.”—Jn 8:29
When I enter a patient’s room at the hospital for anointing, it is comforting to see relatives at the bedside. I join them in prayers. I may not know who they are, so I write the names down to include them. We ask the Lord to be merciful and to be with the patient. Together, we ask him to teach us what pleases him. We face the unknown and we touch our common humanity in facing the transition to a new life.
Jesus invites the Pharisees to believe that He applies to himself the name of YAHVEH, which nobody could say aloud. He is the one who exists with, and lasts beyond, the limits of time.
Since the beginning he is the eternal, the one alive-without-death. In John, God is the one who is, who was, and will always be. Jesus is the one who belongs to what is above.
Let us pray: O Christ, be with me even when I have difficulty trusting your word. I beg to accept your crucifixion as the way to your glorification, when it will be made clearer who you are for me and for all the world.
Today’s author is Glenmary Father François Pellisier, active in marriage and prison ministries from his home in South Georgia.
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