GRANT HIS PRAYER PLEASE

Tuesday in the 7th Week of Easter
Jn 17:1-11

We have in the Gospel today, the Lord’s great priestly prayer. While reading or listening to it, we can also feel the intensity of Jesus’ desire expressed by His words. We are caught up into His prayer, not only because He is praying with us but, most importantly, He is also praying for us. We are the content, the subject, the reason for His prayer.

It is already an overwhelming experience for us to be absorbed in prayer to Jesus. It is, however, more overwhelming an experience to hear Jesus praying for us. Jesus continually prays for us to the Father because He is our one Mediator. For this reason, we always address our prayers to the Father through Jesus.

There is nothing that Jesus asks from the Father that the Father will not grant. However, the answer to Jesus’ prayer to the Father depends not only on the Father Himself. It also depends on us. When we cooperate with the grace that comes from the Father, the fulfillment of Jesus’ great priestly prayer happens. Thus, what we become upon the action of the Father’s grace and our cooperation with it is the answer to Jesus’ prayer.

While we hope that Jesus answers every prayer of our heart, can we be the answers to His prayer to the Father? Please, grant His prayer.