Nov 20th - Ambrose of Camaldoli

"...so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me." (John 17:21)
Why we do not work for unity but instead work to be right confounds me.
Ambrose, a brilliant scholar and pious monk, worked constantly as a mediator for reconciliation, even producing the final document from the Council of Florence - the attempt to reconcile the Roman Church with the Greek Church.
One day.
Pray today and ask Ambrose to intercede for us. Pray today that Christ's prayer will be fulfilled through us because it is a prayer for our conversion to his love.

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I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.
I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me. Father, they are your gift to me. I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that you gave me, because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Righteous Father, the world also does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me. I made known to them your name and I will make it known, that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them.

-- John 17:14-26