In those days,
with his eyes raised to heaven, Jesus prayed:
"Holy Father,
I don't just pray for those who are there,
but for those who believe in me through their word.
May they all be one,
as you, Father, are in me and I am in you.
May they too be one in us,
so that the world may believe that you sent me.
And I gave them the glory that you gave me,
so that they may be one as we are ONE :
I in them, and you in me.
So that they become perfectly one,
so that the world may know that you have sent me,
and that you loved them as you loved me.
Father,
the ones you gave me,
I want to be where I am,
they too are with me,
and behold my glory,
the one you gave me
because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Just Father,
the world didn't know you,
but I knew you,
and they acknowledged
you sent me.
I made your name known to them,
and I'll make it known,
so that the love with which you loved me may be in them,
and may I also be in them."
Jn 17, 20-26
