Reflections on Scripture | Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter

Join Msgr. Don Fischer as he reads and delivers a short reflection on today’s gospel, followed by 3 1/2 minutes of contemplative music and a closing prayer. Msgr. Don hopes that today’s reflection on the gospel will empower you to carry the Word in your heart throughout the day.

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Gospel
John 16:23b-28

Jesus said to his disciples:
"Amen, amen, I say to you,
whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
Until now you have not asked anything in my name;
ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

"I have told you this in figures of speech.
The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures
but I will tell you clearly about the Father.
On that day you will ask in my name,
and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father for you.
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me
and have come to believe that I came from God.
I came from the Father and have come into the world.
Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

Reflection

What does it mean to pray in the name of Jesus? No one has fully understood yet what the Kingdom of God is going to be like. But there were so many misconceptions of what it was that God would create for the Israelite people that no one really knew the real plan.

So to pray in Jesus’ name is to pray for a kingdom that Jesus has described. And when we're praying for that, we know that that prayer will be answered because the will of God will override every other force, every other power in the world. The kingdom will come.

Closing Prayer

Before you came into the world in the form of Jesus, we never fully knew who you were, nor do we know your plans for the world. But now we have seen you, and Jesus has taught us who you are. And when we pray the same prayer as Jesus, when our intention is with Jesus’ intention, we know that what we're praying for will be accomplished. Give us that kind of conviction. And also give us the sense of responsibility we have to continue to pray that the kingdom come. And we ask this in Jesus name, Amen.

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