A reading from the holy Gospel according to John (Jn 6:37-40)
Jesus said to the crowds: “Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me, because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus speaks to the crowd about the will of the Father and what the will of the Father is. Jesus goes on to say it is “that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day.” Just as Jesus does the will of the Father, in coming to Jesus we go to the gift the Father has given us in his Son to make his will our own.
Father in heaven, help me learn your will and do my part in accomplishing it. Your Son’s perfect obedience in his life, death, and resurrection brings salvation to all who believe in him. At your right hand, may your Son intercede for all the faithful departed, who lived lives of holiness through obedience to your word. Grant me the grace to recognize all of the good gifts you give me every day, and let me come to you day by day better prepared for your gift of eternal life.
From the Gospel acclamation: “Come, you who are blessed by my Father;
inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.