John 17:6-11a


I have revealed your name to the people
whom you have given to me out of the world.
They were yours,
and you gave them to me,
and they have kept my word.
Now they have known that everything
which you have given to me is from you.

Because the words which you gave to me,
I have given to them,
and they have received them
and they truly know that I have come from you
and they have believed that you sent me. 
I am praying for them,
I am not praying for the world
but for those whom you have given to me ,
because they are yours.
And everything that is mine is yours and yours is mine
and I have been glorified in them.
I will stay no longer in the world,
and they will stay in the world
and I will come to you.

Thank you, dear Jesus,
for all you have given me,
for all you have taken away from me,
for all you have left me.

Thomas More (c.1478-1535)€

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