The gospel for Monday of the seventh week of Easter is taken from John 16:29, 33. The disciples said to Jesus, now you are talking plainly and not in any figure of speech. Now we realize that you know everything and you do not need to have anyone question you. Because of this, we believe that you came from God. Jesus answered them. Do you believe?

Now behold, the hour’s coming has arrived when each of you will be scattered to his own home and you will leave me alone. But I’m not alone, because the Father is with me. I’ve told you this so that you might have peace in me. In the world you will have trouble, but take courage. I have conquered the world. The disciples were students and it’s interesting that as a teacher begins to open the mind of someone to a new world, it’s really hard for them to grasp.

But here we see that they’re beginning to really grasp it. They see the truth in it, but they’re not finished in their evolution of understanding it. So Jesus reminds them, you will deny me, you will leave me, but know that I am with the Father. Don’t worry about me. I have the Father with me. And you will have the Father with you.

Trust, even though you don’t fully yet understand. Foreign Closing Prayer Father, we’ve never fully grasped the mystery of who we are in you and who you are in us and how we are to live our life. It’s always a process of learning more and more. Bless us with an eager heart and an open mind that we might fill ourselves with more and more of the truth as we fulfill our obligation to follow you. And we ask this in Jesus name, Amen.