Homily on John 17 for the Fifth Sunday after Easter.
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Rev. Brian T. Austin, F.S.S.P., J.C.D., Ph.D.
Rev. Brian T. Austin, F.S.S.P., J.C.D., Ph.D.
Homily on John 17 for the Fifth Sunday after Easter.
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I neglected to point out that the entire High Priestly Prayer of John 17 is beautifully expressed in the Secret: “Suscipe, Domine, fidelium preces cum oblationibus hostiarum: ut, per haec piae devotionis officia, ad caelestem gloriam transeamus.”
Jn 17 also is appointed for the Vigil of the Ascension—thereby connecting Holy Thursday with the DOXA of Ascension Thursday.
1: eternal life is to know the Father and the Son—”and they knew him in the breaking of the Bread.”
2: Christians are sanctified in the Divine Liturgy by the LOGOS, Who alone is the Truth and source of unity.
3. The Holy Mysteries are a foretaste of the Heavenly DOXA (glory) for which the Elect are destined—a sharing in the DOXA of the Lord!
“We all, gazing with unveiled face on the DOXA of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from DOXA to DOXA, even as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2Cor 3:18).