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[Emoke Greschik]

Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter

John 17:20-26






*Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus is sitting at supper with his disciples,
the core of the Church, on the last night of his life on earth. Jesus
prays, “I pray not only for these, but also for those who will believe in
me through their word, so that they may all be one.”What precisely are the
bonds of unity within the body of Christ? What are the elements that foster
Christian unity? I would first mention the credal expressions of the one
faith of the Apostles. At every Sunday Mass, Catholics stand to profess
together the Nicene Creed, in all of its verbal and conceptual complexity,
recapitulating thereby the victories won in the early Church by the
advocates of the apostolic faith over those who would compromise it.  I
would mention as well the liturgy and the sacraments and devotional
practices. We are one in the measure that we participate together in common
worship and in common means of accessing the divine life. We are united,
too, in our commitment to the brothers and sisters through the corporal and
spiritual works of mercy. And finally, we are one through our shared
structure of order which comes from the Apostles.  Through these various
means, we become saints, people whose lives are about one thing.*
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