On Wednesday night we finished reading and discussing Acts chapter 16, including all of the questions on page 90. Next week we will begin reading St. Paul's letter to the Philippians.
We decided that on February 8, rather than meet for study at St. Matthew's, we will attend Fr. Barron's talk at Elmhurst College. Details can be found at Elmhurst college's website.
Prayer request: Liz Johnson's cousin's daughter Maia had been diagnosed with juvenile dermatomyocitis and she and her family need prayer.
The Pope's weekly message for this week:
In our continuing catechesis on Christian prayer, we now turn to the
priestly prayer which Jesus offered at the Last Supper (cf. Jn 17:1-26).
Against the backdrop of the Jewish feast of expiation Yom Kippur, Jesus,
priest and victim, prays that the Father will glorify him in this, the hour of
his sacrifice of reconciliation. He asks the Father to consecrate his
disciples, setting them apart and sending them forth to continue his mission in
the world. Christ also implores the gift of unity for all those who will
believe in him through the preaching of the apostles. His priestly prayer can
thus be seen as instituting the Church, the community of the disciples who,
through faith in him, are made one and share in his saving mission. In
meditating upon the Lord’s priestly prayer, let us ask the Father for the grace
to grow in our baptismal consecration and to open our own prayers to the needs
of our neighbours and the whole world. Let us also pray, as we have just done
in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, for the gift of the visible unity of
all Christ’s followers, so that the world may believe in the Son and in the
Father who sent him.
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