Seventh Sunday of Easter Year A
Acts 1:12-14, 1 Peter 4:13-16,
John 17:1-17
Going through the gospel reading
of today, one could just think of a discussion between a man and his son or a
woman and her daughter having some men and women talks respectively. The bible
portrays Jesus in various places to always go to a quiet and lonely place to
pray. Prayer here between Jesus and his Father, may not be the way we kneel
down to pray to God; it is definitely a form of conversation, the type that
father and son have. It is that type of conversation between Jesus and his
Father that we see in the gospel reading of today. The gospel reading just as
we have had for about two Sundays now, is part of the last discussion between
Jesus and his disciples in the context of the last supper. He was speaking to
his Father as if they were together; indeed Jesus was always with his Father in
prayer. We will still see such conversations between Jesus and his Father after
this, one at the garden of Gethsemane where he asked his father if he must
drunk the cup or it is possible to take it from him, and secondly, his last
discussion with his Father on the cross before he died.
This is the type of conversation
Jesus also calls us to have with the Father. We do not pray to God as if we are
slaves talking to their master, Jesus has made all of us adopted children of
God. This we see in the prayer he prays for us all in the gospel reading.
In the first reading of today, we
see that when Jesus had ascended to heaven, Jesus instructed his disciples to
go to the upper room in Jerusalem to wait for the Holy Spirit so that they too
can have the same connection to God. It is this same Holy Spirit that we are
waiting to commemorate his coming next Sunday as we approach the end of the
Easter season.
When we have that same Spirit of
God in us, we can therefore easily communicate with our Father in heaven just
as Jesus did. God help us. Amen
Fr Michael Osatofoh Eninlejie MSP
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