"So that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me"

Acts of the Apostles 22:30.23:6-11.
Wishing to determine the truth about why Paul was being accused by the Jews, the commander freed him and ordered the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin to convene. Then he brought Paul down and made him stand before them.
Paul was aware that some were Sadducees and some Pharisees, so he called out before the Sanhedrin, "My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; (I) am on trial for hope in the resurrection of the dead."
When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the group became divided.
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection or angels or spirits, while the Pharisees acknowledge all three.
A great uproar occurred, and some scribes belonging to the Pharisee party stood up and sharply argued, "We find nothing wrong with this man. Suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?"
The dispute was so serious that the commander, afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, ordered his troops to go down and rescue him from their midst and take him into the compound.
The following night the Lord stood by him and said, "Take courage. For just as you have borne witness to my cause in Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness in Rome."



Psalms 16(15):1-2a.5.7-8.9-10.11. 
Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge;
I say to the LORD, "My Lord are you."
O LORD, my allotted portion and my cup,
you it is who hold fast my lot.

I bless the LORD who counsels me;
even in the night my heart exhorts me.
I set the LORD ever before me;
with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.

Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices,
my body, too, abides in confidence
because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld,
nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption.

You will show me the path to life,
fullness of joys in your presence,
the delights at your right hand forever.





Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 17:20-26. 

Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying: "I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.
And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one,
I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me.
Father, they are your gift to me. I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that you gave me, because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Righteous Father, the world also does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me.
I made known to them your name and I will make it known, that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them."

"So that they may be one, as we are one, 

I in them and you in me"

The body of Christ’s Church, harmonious result of the coming together of his saints from the beginning of time, reaches its perfectly balanced and integral constitution in the union of the children of God, the firstborn whose names are written in heaven ( cf Lk 10,20)… Our Savior-God himself shows us the indissoluble and indivisible character of union with himself when he says to the apostles: “I am in the Father and the Father is in me; you in me and I in you” (Jn 10,38; 14,20). And he spells this out even more clearly by adding: “I have given them the glory you gave me, that they may be one as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be perfectly one.” And again: “That the love with which you have loved me may be in them and that I also may be in them”…

How marvellous this inexpressible condescension of the love God bears for us, he who is the friend of man ! (Wsd 1,6). That which he is by nature with regard to his Father he grants us to be by adoption and grace in his own regard…The glory given to the Son by the Father, the Son in his turn gives to us through divine grace. Even better: just as he is in the Father and the Father in him so will the Son of God be in us and we in the Son through grace, if we desire it. Having once become like us through the flesh, he has made us sharers of his divinity and incorporates us all in him. In addition, the divinity in which we participate by this communion is not divisible into separate parts but it necessarily follows that we too, once we have become inseparable from it in truth, are inseparable from the one Spirit, making up one body with Christ.