Today’s Gospel from John 8:21-30
Our Lord Jesus Christ said:  “When you shall have lifted up, the Son of man,
then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself,
but as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak.”

Excerpt from Twenty-Second Hour: From 2 to 3 PM,
the Reflections and Practices, of the Hours of the Passion

On the Cross Jesus fulfills the Will of the Father in everything, and He Breathes His last with a Perfect Act of Abandonment in His Most Holy Will.  And do we fulfill the Will of God in everything?  Do we abandon ourselves perfectly in His Volition without looking at whether it is advantageous for us or not—just being content to find ourselves abandoned in His Most Holy Arms?  Is our dying to ourselves continuous for love of Jesus?  Can we say that, although we live, we do not live; that we are dead to everything in order to live not from our own life, but only from the Life of Jesus?  Does everything we do, think, desire and love call the Living of Jesus within us, so as to make our word, our step, our desire and our thought die completely in Jesus?