A Poem a Sunday

Easter VII – B

May 13, 2018

  

St. John 17:6-19 - NRSV

6 “I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; 8 for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. 

11 And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them in your name that[a] you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost,[b] so that the scripture might be fulfilled. 

13 But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.[c]14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.[d] 

16 They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

Footnotes:

1. John 17:12 Other ancient authorities read protected in your name those whom
2. John 17:12 Gk except the son of destruction
3. John 17:13 Or among themselves
4. John 17:15 Or from evil

A Poem a Sunday

Easter VII - B

In the beginning

One

*.

but then

the great divide:

division

after division

trillions

upon

trillions

over time

could not

hide

the

One

Alpha Point

engendered

in all

creation.

It is in

awakening

to the

Oneness,

the Gift,

from

instant

one

that the

creation

will become

a union of

vast diversity

evolving into

a new

oneness

drawn to the

Omega Point

*“In the beginning, nearly fourteen billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained in a volume less than one-trillionth the size of the period that ends this sentence.”

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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