As disciples of Jesus Christ, our Lord, we are called to pray for one another. We should pray for everyone in the world to our one mediator, who came to die for us so that we might live fully in Him for all eternity. We are particularly called to pray for our leaders, so they may make wise decisions for their people and be empowered by the Holy Spirit.
In the Gospel, we witness Jesus’ final and loving act: ensuring His mother would be cared for by entrusting her to His beloved disciple. This act has many layers for us to process, embrace, and move forward with. Mary, our mother, was entrusted with the care of the church when He placed her in the care of His beloved disciple. Symbolizing that all of us are equally loved by Jesus and entrusted to the care of our Blessed mother. Interestingly, the disciple Jesus loved is not named in this gospel, signifying that we are all Jesus’ beloved disciples.
It is out of love for Him that we follow after Hs heart and minister to our brethren. Amen.
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First reading
1 Timothy 2:1-8
Pray for everyone to God, who wants everyone to be saved
My advice is that, first of all, there should be prayers offered for everyone – petitions, intercessions and thanksgiving – and especially for kings and others in authority, so that we may be able to live religious and reverent lives in peace and quiet. To do this is right, and will please God our saviour: he wants everyone to be saved and reach full knowledge of the truth. For there is only one God, and there is only one mediator between God and mankind, himself a man, Christ Jesus, who sacrificed himself as a ransom for them all. He is the evidence of this, sent at the appointed time, and I have been named a herald and apostle of it and – I am telling the truth and no lie – a teacher of the faith and the truth to the pagans.
In every place, then, I want the men to lift their hands up reverently in prayer, with no anger or argument.
Gospel
John 19:25-27
‘Woman, this is your son’
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that moment the disciple made a place for her in his home.
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