John 17:11b-19
"While I was with them, I protected them in
your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost
except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled.
But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they
may have my joy made complete in themselves. I have given them your word, and
the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do
not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but
I ask you to protect them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world,
just as I do not belong to the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is
truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in
truth."
Reflection
Can I feel the love of Jesus?
Do I pray for those who move beyond our
active care?