父啊！求祢光荣祢的子
福音：若十七1-11
那时候，耶稣举目向天说：
“父啊！时辰来到了，求你光荣你的子，好叫子也光荣你：
因为你赐给了祂权柄掌管凡有血肉的人，
是为叫他将永生赐给一切你所赐给他的人。
永生就是：认识你，唯一的真天主，和你所派遣来的耶稣基督。
我在地上，已光荣了你，完成了你委托我所作的工作。
父啊！现在，在你面前光荣我罢！
赐给我在世界未有以前，我在你前所有的光荣罢！”
“我将你的名，已显示给那些你由世界中所赐给我的人。
他们原属于你，你把他们托给了我，他们也遵守了你的话。
现在，他们已知道：凡你赐给我的，都是由你而来的，
因为你所授给我的话，我都传给了他们；
他们也接受了，也确实知道我是出于你，并且相信是你派遣了我。
我为他们祈求，不为世界祈求，
只为你赐给我的人祈求，因为他们原是属于你的。
我的一切都是你的，你的一切都是我的：我因他们已受到了光荣。
从今以后，我不在世界上了，但他们仍在世界上，我却到你那里去。
圣父啊！求你因你的名，保全那些你所赐给我的人，
使他们合而为一，正如我们一样。”
反省
时候到了，耶稣以服从来光荣天父，也要求父继续光荣祂。
因此，我们也能学习耶稣一样服从。
天父的旨意首先透过日常生活而来，每个人有其身分和随之而来的职责。
但不是每个责任都让我们乐意完成的，
有些像举手之劳，也有些像背负十字架一样的痛苦。
耶稣深知我们的软弱，也知道世界给我们的挑战和诱惑，
因此祂也常常为我们祈求各种助佑。
你有什么难以承担的责任，或很不愿意服从的事情，
而需要耶稣帮助你的呢？你希望祂为你祈求什么？
（提供／澳门乐仁出版社）
Gospel JN 17:1-11A
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.
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.
“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.
Now 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.
I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me,
because they are yours, and everything of mine is yours
and everything of yours is mine,
and I have been glorified in them.
And now I will no longer be in the world,
but they are in the world, while I am coming to you.”