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June
Trinity
John
17: 6-11
Father, I have revealed your name
and your being to all human beings whom you have led through destiny to me.
They were yours; they lived out of the powers that worked in folk and family,
and now you have given them to me, and into my working that lives in the Self,
and they have kept your word in their inmost being. Thus they have recognized
how all the spiritual power that you have given me truly proceeds from you; for
all the creative spiritual power that you have given me, I have brought to
them.
They have taken it up into
themselves and have recognized that in truth I come from you, and they have
gained insight, and trust that I have been sent by you. I pray to you for them
as individual human beings; they who are to live out of the power of the self,
as individuals, I pray to you for them; not for mankind in general, but for the
human beings which you have given me. For they belong to you, just as
everything which is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and the light of my
being can shine in them [I am revealed in them].
I no longer live in the outer world, but they live in this world.
My whole being is devoted to you.
And I am coming to you. Holy Father, you
who give healing to the world, keep in your name and in your being all whom you
have given to me, so that they may be one even as we also are one.
First Trinity Sunday
John 17: 6-11
Some types of roses grow in great
clusters. Yet this form is created by the ordering of many smaller individual
blossoms, each complete and unique in itself.
Mankind
is a great cluster. Yet the Gospel reading emphasizes that Christ prays to His
Father, not for the greater cluster, but for the single individuals who are
close to Him. What is important to Him, that out of which He operates, is a relationship of love, active from both
sides. He is a Divine Human Being, a Human Divine, who wants an intimately
personal relationship with each of us.
In
recent years there appeared a collection of modern Christ experiences.[1]
One recurring theme in these accounts was each person’s experience of being
seen, known by Christ, and at the same time being deeply loved, in spite of His
full awareness of their weaknesses or failings. The overriding experience was
of being intimately known, loved and supported. Out of this experience of being
known and loved by Christ, we in turn can learn to love others in a similar
way.
Before
His total sacrifice of Himself out of His love, Christ prays to His Father:
“Keep in your Name and in your Being all whom you gave given to me, so that
they may be One, even as we are also One.” John
17:11
How can we be One? The poet
suggests a way:
…narrow the gap
Between you and
God.
I [we] have many
younger brothers and sister
Scattered upon
this earth
There are always
friends of God in this world.
Find on and
offer service
For their glance
is generous and cannot help
But forever
give. [2]
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