求祢使他们合而为一，正如我们一样
福音：若十七11-19
那时，耶稣举目向天，祈求说：
“圣父啊！求祢因祢的名，保全那些祢所赐给我的人，
使他们合而为一，正如我们一样。
当我和他们同在时，我因祢的名，保全了祢所赐给我的人，护卫了他们，
其中除了那丧亡之子，没有丧亡一个，这是为应验经上的话。
但如今我到祢那里去，我在世上讲这话，是为叫他们的心充满我的喜乐。
我已将祢的话授给了他们，世界却憎恨他们，
因为他们不属于世界，就如我不属于世界一样。
我不求祢将他们从世界上撤去，只求祢保护他们脱免邪恶。
他们不属于世界，就如我不属于世界一样。
求祢以真理祝圣他们，祢的话就是真理。
就如祢派遣我到世界上来，照样我也派遣他们到世界上去。
我为他们祝圣我自己，为叫他们也因真理而被祝圣。”
反省
合一是自我分享的神的渴望，分裂是唯我独尊的世界的手段。
天主将人放在世界上，祂知道世界会使人陷于邪恶，
却没有毁灭世界而是圣化祂要的人。
世界像旷野一样危机四伏，却能激发人与圣善天主合一的渴望。
旷野中有贫瘠有野兽，同时旷野中也有宁静。
人在旷野中有选择有自由，这才是人能成圣的场所，
使人能藉真理而被圣化。
（姜岭神父提供）
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.”