Today the Church celebrates the Seventh Sunday of Easter. The assigned readings are Acts 1:15-17, 20A, 20C-26; 1 John 4:11-16;
and John 17:11B-19. The Responsorial Psalm is Psalm 103 (Psalm 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20).
For one version of the Responsorial Psalm set to music, please visit:
YouTube: The Lord Has Set His Throne in Heaven. Psalm 103 (B053)
The Gospel reading is as follows:
Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying: "Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. 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."
Reflections on these readings:
Oblates of St. Francis de Sales: Sunday Reflections: Seventh Sunday of Easter May 16, 2021
Oblates of St. Francis de Sales: Sundays Salesian: Seventh Sunday of Easter (May 16, 2021)
The Gregorian Institute at Benedictine College: This Sunday, Sent Not Saved (13 MAY 21)