Be One Just As We Are One May 28

Piety

Jesus, you tell us that everyone is a child of God.
The people of Staten Island are one with God.
The people of Jerusalem are one with God.
The people of the Gaza Strip are one with God.
The people of New Orleans are one with God.
The people of Yogyakarta are one with God.
The people of Villa Nueva, Guatemala are one with God.
The people of Buckingham Correction Center are one with God.
The people of Warsaw are one with God.
The people of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Kigali and Darfur are one with God.
The people of Fairfax, Virginia are one with God.
Jesus, help us to see you and love you in all the faces of the world. Amen.

Study
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Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us,and his love is brought to perfection in us. 1 Jn 4:12

Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me,so that they may be one just as we are one. John 17:11

One. God. Three in one. That is our Trinity. As Jesus ascends, the Son of God declares that we are one with God as he was one with God. All in one. That is the people of God. Our job is to love them all to keep God with us.

Getting on the plane yesterday in Mobile seems like an apt metaphor. Forty-two passengers on the journey with our flight leaders and untold numbers of workers in ground support from the gate agents, air traffic controllers, mechanics, baggage handlers, security personnel, baggage screeners, car rental agents, jet fuel technicians, meteorologists, flight attendants, pilots, even the persons who designed the plane, the airports and other systems that guided us to Charlotte and on to DC. One in our journey. Dependent upon the actions of the others. Each person needed to fulfill their role to make this journey a success.

God put us all on an airplane called Earth. He sent Jesus to design a new in-flight system for us that wee call the Good News. Jesus walked among us for a while but then left us to rejoin our grand design team in Heaven. The successful flight is now dependent upon each of us working together, loving each other, for all of us.

Action

Reflect on ways that you already fulfill your role on the Christian pilgrimage. Is there more that we need to do in order to make our journey and the journey of others a success?