7th Sunday after Easter – Year A
MAY 17, 2026
Gospel Lectionary Text
John 17:1-11
17:1 After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you,
17:2 since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
17:3 And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
17:4 I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do.
17:5 So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.
17:6 "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.
17:7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you;
17:8 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.
17:9 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.
17:10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them.
17:11 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.
Context
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Question
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Reflections
Praying Eucharistically - Weekly Homily by James Alison:
Understanding the Bible anew through the Mimetic Theory of René Girard.
Poetry
excerpt from "Jerusalem, Jerusalem"
by James Carroll
“Christians affirm the Credo, Jews the Shema, Muslims the Shahada—all declaring that there is one God.38 But what does “one” mean? In a scientific age, it is taken as a number. God is thought of as a solitary entity, standing apart from all others, and therefore, it is thought, against all others. If this is the meaning of monotheism, then yes, such belief is inherently a source of conflict, not peace”…
“Moses Maimonides, the twelfth-century Jewish sage, rejected the idea that God’s “Oneness” is a category of quantity. In that sense, he wrote, “the term ‘one’ is just as inapplicable to God as the term ‘many.’”39 Instead of a unit, the “Oneness” of God affirms a unity. Oneness in this sense means not the being who stands apart, radically different and superior, but the being who is present as the reconciliation of all oppositions. That God is One means, as Isaiah saw, that the God of this people is the God of all people.40 Monotheism in this sense is not the source of conflict, but the source of conflict resolution.”…
“The Oneness of this God is not a number but a relationship with what exists. (Later, the followers of Jesus would recognize the same quality in his intimacy with the one he called Father, as in “The Father and I are one.”42 Jesus’ embodiment of God’s Oneness was what his followers recognized as his divinity.”
Prayer
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