5/10/13:  Jn 16.23b–28                                                                                            

Meditatio: “For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God.” Jn 16.27

Oratio: "O God, wonderfully You are a God who has drawn close to us and not an impersonal God.         

I remember Jesus declared that You love us as the Father - one can’t ask for a greater relationship than that of love.

Grant that I may cherish Your love and respond as a loving child to Your wishes.
                  
 I ask these and all things through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with the  Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

 Contemplatio: Keep silence and remain in recollection for a few minutes.

Reflect: “love”; precious; cherish, a great affection for another,  amore, agape; in prayer thank God for loving us so and ask for the grace to respond with love to Him and to those whose lives we touch in His name.

Tomorrow's reading: Jn 17.20-26