​May 27, 2020 Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter

Gospel: John 17:11b-19
Optional Memorial of Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop
 
Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying:
“Holy Father, keep them in your name
   that you have given me,
   so that they may be one just as we are one.
When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me,
   and I guarded them,
   and none of them was lost
   except the son of destruction,
   in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
But now I am coming to you.
I speak this in the world
   so that they may share my joy completely.
I gave them your word, and the world hated them,
   because they do not belong to the world
   any more than I belong to the world.
I do not ask that you take them out of the world
   but that you keep them from the Evil One.
They do not belong to the world
   any more than I belong to the world.
Consecrate them in the truth.
Your word is truth.
As you sent me into the world,
   so I sent them into the world.
And I consecrate myself for them,
   so that they also may be consecrated in truth.”

Preacher: Stella Deriquito