It Is Well with My Soul: The Sacred Roots Annual 2022-2023

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T he S eason from E aster to P entecost

WEEK 26 S eventh S unday of E aster May 21 - 27, 2023

For forty days after his resurrection, Jesus revealed himself alive to his disciples. On the fortieth day, he ascended to heaven to take his place as Lord and Christ at God’s right hand. Ten days after this, on the fiftieth day after his resurrection, he would send to us the promise of the Father – the Holy Spirit, the pledge of our salvation. Here we ponder the wonder of God’s working, from Easter Sunday to the Spirit’s descent at Pentecost. In the Upper Room, before his passion and death, our Lord Jesus prayed as our high priest to God. Jesus prayed for his disciples, for those whom the Father had given him, and for those who would come to believe through the apostles. Jesus declared that he would no longer be in the world, but they would be in the world, and he would soon be coming to the Lord. Jesus asked the Holy Father to keep them in his name, those whom he had given to Christ, in order that they might be one, even as he and his Father were one. THIS WEEK’S THEME The High Priestly Prayer, John 17.1-11

D aily D evotional G uide P reparing O ur H earts Invocation: Our Prayer of Acclamation

Gracious God and Holy Father, to whom the Lord Jesus prayed on behalf of his apostles, thank you for the life and ministry of our high priest, Jesus, for us today. We know that he ever lives to make intercession on our account, and without his ministry