At that time, looking up to heaven, Jesus prayed:
"Holy Father,
keep my disciples united in your name,
the name you gave me,
so that they may be one, like ourselves.
When I was with them,
I kept them united in your name, the name you gave me.
I looked after them, and not one of them got lost,
except the one who goes to his doom
so that Scripture may be fulfilled.
And now I'm coming to you,
I'm talking like this, in the world,
that they may have my joy in them,
and may they be fulfilled.
I gave them your word,
and the world hated them
because they don't belong to the world,
just as I don't belong to the world.
I'm not praying for you to take them out of the world,
but to keep them from the Evil One.
They don't belong to the world,
just as I don't belong to the world.
Sanctify them in the truth:
your word is truth.
Just as you sent me into the world,
I also sent them into the world.
And for their sake I sanctify myself,
so that they too may be sanctified in the truth.
Jn 17, 11b-19
