Thursday, November 11 : Eusebius of Caesarea

In his great priestly prayer our Savior requests that we might be with him where he is and behold his glory. He loves us as the Father loves him and desires to give to us everything the Father has given to him. He wishes to pass on to us in his turn the glory he possesses from his Father and to make us all one. He does not want us to be a great crowd anymore but that we should all together form a unity, brought together by his divinity into the glory of the kingdom, not by fusion into one substance but in perfection, the summit of virtue. This is what Christ announced when he said: “May they all be completely one!” Thus, made perfect by wisdom, prudence, justice, piety and all Christ’s virtues, we shall be united to the unfailing light of the Father’s divinity, ourselves become light through our union with him and fully children of God through our communion with his only Son, who causes us to participate in the splendor of his divinity. This is how we shall all become one with the Father and the Son. For just as he declared that the Father and he were one – “My Father and I,” he said, “are one” (Jn 10,30) – so he prays that we might share in the same unity in imitation of him… Not the unity of nature that he has with the Father but this one: just as the Father has made him share in his own glory, so he, in imitation of the Father, will pass on his glory to those whom he loves.

maronite readings – rosary,team