“My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, and as I told the Jews, ‘Where I go you cannot come,’ so now I say it to you ...” (John 13:33.)
“The statement “Yet a little while I am with you” is clear in the simple sense, so far as the literal sense is concerned, since he would soon no longer be with the disciples. First, he was arrested by the cohort and the tribune and the servants of the Jews who bound him and led him off to Annas first, and after this he was delivered to Pilate. Next, he was condemned to the cross, and then he spent three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
For in that “little while” in which they would not see him, they would seek Jesus, and for this reason they would weep and lament, although their grief would change to joy when the saying was fulfilled, “And again a little while and you will see me.”4 But to seek Jesus is to seek the Word, and wisdom, and justice, and truth and the power of God, all of which Christ is." (Commentary on the Gospel of John, 32.)
Additional reflections on glory and love for this Sunday of Easter.
For in that “little while” in which they would not see him, they would seek Jesus, and for this reason they would weep and lament, although their grief would change to joy when the saying was fulfilled, “And again a little while and you will see me.”4 But to seek Jesus is to seek the Word, and wisdom, and justice, and truth and the power of God, all of which Christ is." (Commentary on the Gospel of John, 32.)
Additional reflections on glory and love for this Sunday of Easter.
Collect
Almighty ever-living God,
constantly accomplish the
Paschal mystery within us,
that those you were pleased
to make new in holy Baptism may,
under your protective care,
bear much fruit and
come to the joys of life eternal.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
who lives and reigns with You in the
unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
constantly accomplish the
Paschal mystery within us,
that those you were pleased
to make new in holy Baptism may,
under your protective care,
bear much fruit and
come to the joys of life eternal.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
who lives and reigns with You in the
unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Glory to the Father
and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be forever. Amen
