Brothers and sisters, John speaks from his own experience: he has seen with his own eyes the Spirit that descended and remained with Jesus. He reminds us that Jesus is God’s gift to humanity. Let us pray.
That we be a saving and liberating presence
• That the Church always and in every circumstance proclaim that in Jesus is found life, all meaning and horizon.
That we be a saving and liberating presence
• That believers be aware that the sin of the world consists of the rejection of the Word/Life, opposing the life that God communicates.
That we be a saving and liberating presence
• Let all of us listen to the announcement that Juan makes us: in Jesus, God offers us his support, his love, his joy to free us from evil and live in fullness.
• Let us be a saving and liberating presence
• Let us remember with our lives in this new year that we have just begun that following Jesus means committing ourselves to his struggle and his effort to suppress the evil that, at times, dominates us and its terrible consequences.
• Let us be a saving and liberating presence
• Let our communities of faith be schools of life according to the Spirit of Jesus, leaven and seeds of the Kingdom dreamed and initiated by Jesus.
May we be a saving and liberating presence
Good Father Mother, so that we do not forget that our only reason for being as a Christian community is to bear witness to Jesus and to make today’s mystery of his saving and liberating love a reality.
Vicky Irigaray
English version translated with AI