So they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early morning; they didn’t enter the Praetorium so that they would not not be defiled and could eat the Passover 

So Pilate went out to them and said ‘What charge do you bring against this man?’

They answered: ‘If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.’

Pilate said ‘Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law. 

The Jews said to him: ‘It is not lawful for us to kill anyone.’ This was to fulfil the word of Jesus which he spoke indicating what kind of death he was about to die. 

So Pilate went into the Praetorium again and called Jesus and said to him: ‘Are you the King of the Jews?’ 

Jesus replied: ‘Are you saying this on your own account or have others spoken to you about me? 

Pilate answered: ‘I am not a Jew am I? Your own people and the High Priests handed you over to me. What have you done?’

Jesus answered ‘My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom was from this world my ‘officials ‘ would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews. But my Kingdom is not from here. 

So Pilate said to him ‘So you are a king?’ 

Jesus replied ‘You say that I am a king.  For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, that I might bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice. 

Pilate said to him ‘What is truth?’

God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.

So the High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. 

Jesus replied to him: ‘I have spoken to the world, openly. I have always taught in  synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews come together, and I have said nothing in secret.  Why do you question me? Question those who have heard what I said to them.  Certainly they know what I said.’

Jesus having said this, one of the officials standing by struck Jesus, saying ‘Is this how you answer the High Priest?’ 

Jesus replied to him ‘ If I have spoken wrongly, give witness to the  wrong. If I spoke correctly, why strike me?’

Then Annas sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the High Priest. 

Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Then they said to him: ‘You too are of his disciples, aren’t you?’ He denied it: ‘I am not.’ One of the slaves of the High Priest, a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off,  said: ‘Didn’t I  see you in the garden with him?’  Again Peter denied it, and immediately the cock crowed. 

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

So the High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. 

Jesus replied to him: ‘I have spoken to the world, openly. I have always taught in  synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews come together, and I have said nothing in secret.  Why do you question me? Question those who have heard what I said to them.  Certainly they know what I said.’

Jesus having said this, one of the officials standing by struck Jesus, saying ‘Is this how you answer the High Priest?’ 

Jesus replied to him:
‘If I have spoken wrongly, give witness to the  wrong.
If I spoke correctly, why strike me?’

Then Annas sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the High Priest. 

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Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Then they said to him: ‘You too are one of his disciples, aren’t you?’ He denied it: ‘I am not.’ One of the slaves of the High Priest, a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off,  said: ‘Didn’t I  see you in the garden with him?’  Again Peter denied it, and immediately the cock crowed.

Lord, you have given me so much,
I ask for one more thing –
a grateful heart.

George Herbert

Then the soldiers, the officer and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus and bound him. 

And they led him first to Annas. For he was Caiaphas’s father-in-law, who was the High-Priest that year. It was Caiaphas who advised the Jewish leaders that it was an advantage for one man to die, rather than the whole people. 

He was followed by Simon Peter, and another disciple. That disciple was known to  the High Priest and went in with Jesus into the High Priest’s courtyard.  Peter stood near the door, outside.  The other disciple (known by the High Priest) went in and spoke to the door-keeper and she brought Peter in.  The slave-girl who was the door-keeper said to Peter: ‘Can it be that you too are one of  this man’s disciples?’ He said ‘I am not’. 

The slaves and the officials were standing around a charcoal fire that they had made because they were cold, and they were warming themselves. Peter was also with them, and warming himself.

Be thou a bright flame before me,
Be thou a guiding star above me
Be thou a smooth path below me
Be thou a kindly shepherd behind me
Today – tonight -forever
Amen.

St Columba

I do not pray only for these,
but also for those who will believe in me through their word:
–that is that they all might be one;

just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you;
then they also might be in us –
so that the world might believe that you sent me. 

And the glory which you have given to me, I have given to them,
so  they might be one, as we are,
I am in them and you are me,
that is that they might be perfectly one
so that the world might know that you sent me ,
and you love them as you love me. 

Father,
the ones you have given me, I want
that where I am, they are with me
so that they might see my glory
which you gave me
because you love me,
before the foundation of the world.

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you,
I know you,
and these know you because you sent me.
And I have made known to them your word
and i will make it known,
so that the love which which you loved may be in them,
and I in them.

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

Holy Father, keep them in your name
which you gave me so that they might be one as we are. 
While I was with them I kept them in your name
which you have given me
and I guarded them
and not one of them was lost,
except the son of destruction, that the scripture might be fulfilled. 

Now I am coming to you
and I say these things in the world
so that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
I gave them your word and the world hated them,
because they do not belong to the world as I do not belong to this world.
I do not pray that you take them out of the world,
but that you would keep them from the evil one.
They do not belong to the world, as I do not belong to the world.
Set them apart by your truth.
Your word is truth.
Just as you sent me into the world,
I send them into the world.
And I consecrate myself on their behalf
so that they might be consecrated by the truth.

Grant, Lord,
that we may hold to you without parting,
worship you without wearying,
serve you without failing;
faithfully seek you,
happily find you,
and forever possess you,
the only God,blessed now and for ever.
Amen

St Anselm

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)€

Jesus said these things and having lifted up his eyes to heaven, said:
‘Father, the hour has come. 

Glorify your son, so that the son might glorify you. 

Just as you have given to him authority over all flesh, so that all who you have given to him – he will give to them resurrection life. This is ‘resurrection  life’ – that they may know you, the only true God and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. 

I have glorified you on the earth, by completing the work which you gave me to do. 

And now glorify me, Father in your presence , with the glory which I had, by your side. before the world existed.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy,
For your mercy and for your truth’s sake. Amen

I have said these things to you in ‘parables’; the hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in ‘parables’, but I will tell you in plain speech about the Father.

On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf –  

for the Father loves you all of his own accord,
because you have loved me
and you have believed that I have come from the Father. 

I came from the Father and have come into the world.
Again I am leaving the world and I am going to the Father. 

His disciples said ‘Look, now you are speaking plainly and no longer in parables. We know now that you know all things and you have no need for anyone to question you. Because of this we believe that you have come from God. ‘

Jesus answered them: ‘Now you believe?
Behold the hour is coming
and it has arrived when you will be scattered each to their own place,
and you will leave me alone.
But I am not alone,
because the Father is with me. 

I have said these things to so that you might have peace in me.
In the world you have trouble.

But be courageous, I have overcome the world.’

O Lord Jesus Christ,
stay beside me to defend me,
within me to guide me,
before me to lead me,
and above me to bless me,
that with you and in you,
I may live, and move and have my being,
for ever and ever.
Amen.

(unknown)

Jesus said…

‘After a little while you will no longer be able to look at me, and again after a little while  you will see me.’

Then some of  his disciples said to one another ‘What does he mean when he says ‘‘After a little while you will no longer be able to look at me, and again after a little while you will see me,” and ‘Because I go to the Father?’

So they were saying  ‘What is this that he says ‘After a little while?” We do not know what he means.’

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he  said to them: ’Are you discussing amongst yourselves the meaning of what I said: “After a little while and you will no longer be able to look at me, and again after a little while you will see me?”

Truly, truly I say to you, You will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice. You will be sad, but your sorrow will become joy.”

A woman when she gives birth, has sorrow because her hour has come. When she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a human has been born into the world. 

So now you have sorrow –  but I will see you again, and your hearts will be joyful, and no one will take that joy away from you. 

And on that day you will ask me nothing. 

Truly, truly I say to you, whatever you ask the Father, in my name, he will give to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy might have a full measure.’

God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.