CONSECRATE THEM IN THE TRUTH

At 20,28-38; Ps 67; Jn 17 ,11b-19
16 MAY
In the Gospel according to John on one side there is Christ Jesus who reveals himself to the world as the truth and the creator of it in the heart of every man and on the other there is Pilate, a true figure of the world, who at the end asks: “What is the truth?” We know that Pilate asks, but does not wait for the answer. This is the world: it asks, but it does not want to know the truth, because it frightens it. Is not the world afraid of the truth today? Does not it try to stifle, annihilate and destroy it? Who suffocates the truth, is suffocated. Who destroys the truth, is destroyed. Truth is life.

And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth (Jn 1, 14). Because while the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ (Jn 1, 17). But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God (Jn 3, 21). But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; and indeed the Father seeks such people to worship him (Jn 4, 23). You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth (Jn 5, 33). But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God; Abraham did not do this (Jn 8, 40).You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies (Jn 8, 44). But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me (Jn 8, 45). Can any of you charge me with sin? If I am telling the truth, why do you not believe me? (Jn 8, 46). Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (Jn 14, 6).

The Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you (Jn 14, 17). When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me (Jn 15, 26). But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you (Jn 16, 7). But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming (Jn 16, 13). Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth (Jn 17, 17). And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth (Jn 17, 19). So Pilate said to him, “Then you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice” (Jn 18, 37). Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” When he had said this, he again went out to the Jews and said to them, “I find no guilt in him” (Jn 18, 38).

The dialogue between Christ Jesus and Pilate must be perpetuated in history between the body of Christ, every member of the body of Christ and the world. The body of Christ must present himself to the world as the purest truth. To the physical, bodily presentation, it is also necessary to add the word which illumines and enlightens. Life truth and word truth must be one thing. Never must they become two separate things. Either they exist together or they do not exist. The Word truth without life truth is useless. Jesus is all truth.

Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are. When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely. I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.

Consecrating in truth is making the disciples truth of life and truth of the Word. Truth is their body, their soul, their spirit, their thoughts, desires and aspirations. Truth is all their Word. Truth is the conformation of their being to the being of God.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us God’s truth in Christ.