Jun 10: Called to Resurrection

Luca Signorelli: The Resurrection of the Body (detail)
Cappella di San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto, 1499-1502

Friday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time

Reading I: 2 Cor 4:7-15

Because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his presence (NRSV, 2 Cor 4:14).

Father, you are always present to us through your Word offering us your life in the Holy Spirit even in this world. That life which filled our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, enabled him to pass unscathed through physical death to the glory of bodily resurrection. It is our belief and our hope that we are called to that same destiny.

May we, Father, say “yes” to your gift of life offered to us through the Word in every situation, and, growing in that life in this world, may we with Jesus also come to that final resurrection of the body.

Through Christ our Lord. Amen.