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'That They All May Be One'

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Dom Raphael Molitor
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‘Ut Omnes Unum Sint.’ Why was it that our Lord did not include this prayer among the petitions of the Our Father? Surely it was because its content is too holy and its meaning too delicate and full of mystery. This petition could only be presented to the Father with the required purity and value by the lips of our High Priest, the God-Man, and by the infinite love of his heart.

Ut omnes unum sint. The prophetic eye of Jesus scans time and eternity. The faithful appear before him in their millions—men of the most diverse tongues and lands approach him, desirous to find in him deliverance and eternal salvation, love and peace, eager to live according to his will and example, to be like him in all things, forming a host of glittering stars. Each One in himself, separated from the rest, is a world of his own.

Type
Research Article
Information
Life of the Spirit , Volume 6 , Issue 71 , May 1952 , pp. 461 - 465
Copyright
Copyright © 1952 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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Footnotes

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Translated from the Introduction to a collection of papers, “Ut Omnes Unum Sint.Ein Werkbuch ostkirchlicher Arbeit, with kind permission of the author's successor, Abbot Buddenborg of Gerleve, and the publishers Verlag Regensberg, Munster Translated by Dom Thomas Boos.