A reading from the wisdom of A. Powell Davies:
The years of all of us are short, our lives precarious. Our days and nights
go hurrying on and there is scarcely time to do the little that we might. Yet
we find time for bitterness, for petty treason and evasion. What can we do to
stretch our hearts enough to lose their littleness? Here we are — all of us —
all upon this planet, bound together in a common destiny, living our lives
between the briefness of the daylight and the dark. Kindred in this, each
lighted by the same precarious, flickering flame of life, how does it happen
that we are not kindred in all things else? How strange and foolish are these
walls of separation that divide us!
The Light of Truth.
Thanks be to God.
John 17.1, 6-10 (The Inclusive New Testament, Priests for
Equality)
Our God be with you.
And also with you.
A reading from the Gospel of John.
Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
1Abba, the hour has come! Glorify your
Only Begotten that I may glorify you… 6I have manifested your Name
to those you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me;
and now they have kept your word. 7Now they know that everything
you’ve entrusted to me does indeed come from you. 8I entrusted to
them the message you entrusted to me, and they received it. They know that I
really came from you; they believe it was you who sent me. 9And
it’s for them that I pray… for they are really yours, 10just as all
that belongs to me is yours, and all that belongs to you is mine. It is in
them that I have been glorified.
This is the Good News…the Gospel!
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
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