Jesus said ‘Now my soul is troubled, and what might I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this reason I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name. ‘
Then came a voice from heaven ‘I have glorified it and I will glorify it again. ‘
So the crowd which was standing there and heard it, said it was a thunderclap. Others said ‘An angel has spoken to him.’
Jesus answered : ‘This voice came not for me, but for you. Now is the judgement of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And as for myself, if I am lifted up from this earth I will draw everyone to me. ‘
(He said this to signify the manner of death he was about to die. )
The crowd said to him ‘We heard from the Law the Christ stays for ever. How can you say that it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?’
He said to them: ‘ A little while yet the light is among you, walk while you have the light. Lest the darkness overtake you. And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where they are going. As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you will be light’s children.’
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