So Jesus spoke to those Judeans who had believed in him: ‘If you stay in my word, truly you show that you are my disciples. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
And they said to him :’We are descendants of Abraham, and we have never been enslaved to anyone. “How then do you say that we will become free?”’
Jesus answered them: ‘Truly, truly I say to you that everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. But the slave does not stay in the household for life, rather the son stays forever. So if the Son frees you, you will really be set free.
I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you seek to kill me, because my word finds no room in you. ‘
Teach us, good Lord,
to serve thee as thou deservest;
to give and not to count the cost;
to fight and not to heed the wounds;
to toil and not to seek for rest;
to labour and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do thy will,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
St Ignatius