Gospel Reflection – Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Friends, Jesus’ prayer in in the present day’s Gospel summarizes his fantastic work in the mean time when he’s about to return to the Father.

Jesus was, in his personal particular person, the assembly of heaven and earth. God and humanity have been united in him, and his whole ministry was the outward expression of that inside identification. By calling Israel to unity, inviting the poor to share the desk, therapeutic the sick in physique and coronary heart, and embodying the trail of forgiveness and love, Jesus was bringing God’s will and goal to the earth.

Now, in ardour and loss of life, Jesus brings heaven to earth. It brings divine gentle to the darkest locations of the human situation—hatred, cruelty, violence, corruption, stupidity, struggling, and loss of life itself—and transforms them. And the proof that heaven can rework earth is, after all, the resurrection.

We now know that cruelty, hatred, violence, worry, struggling and loss of life aren’t essentially the most highly effective forces on the earth. Now we all know that divine love is extra highly effective. The kingdom of God has, in precept, defeated the kingdoms of the world, which prosper and, in flip, produce those self same unfavourable circumstances.