Friday, June 28th
St. Irenaeus
Jesus raised His eyes to heaven and said, "Holy Father …. With Me in them and you in Me, may they be so completely one that the world will realise that it was You who sent Me, and that I have loved them as much as You loved me … and so that I may be in them."
John 17:23

Heaven is the Father's Presence. Only the perfect, the redeemed and sanctified can bear the fire and power of His penetrating, all pervasive love. But I, the Father's agent in creation and in the recreation of His fallen world have lived and died in time to be His love and His salvation to all who look and listen and respond as they are led.

Holy Father, I am your Word and Saving Love to all Your children who respond in faith and trust, bind them together in that fire and bond of fellowship which is Our Very Self. Give them the vision of Your glory, Holy Father, and let that glory shine in Your entire world. And may Our love so witness to Our life both in each one who seeks and in the corporate body of the whole that countless numbers may be brought into the fold.

Perfect that union, O Holy Father, which exists between those who live in Us and We in them that all who seek your Presence may be enfolded in the fullness of Our love.