John said to him: ‘Teacher, we have seen someone casting out demons in your name and we told them to stop because they were not following us.’
But Jesus said ‘Do not stop them:
- For there is no one who performs acts of power in my name, and soon afterwards bad mouths me.
- For whoever is not against us is for us.
- For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of the name – you are Christ’s – truly I say to you that they will not lose their reward.
O Love, O God who created me, in your love recreate me.
O Love, who redeemed me,
fill up in me whatever part of your love
has fallen into neglect within me.
O Love, O God, who first loved me,
grant that with my whole heart,
and with my whole soul,
and with my whole strength,
I may love you.
Gertrude the Great