Today we pray especially for the College of Cardinals, beginning the Conclave for the election of a new Pope. May the Holy Spirit guide them to the one whom He has chosen.

Here is today’s Gospel, again from St John: ‘Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will not cast out.  For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me;  and this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”’

May we, too, align our own human will with that of our Lord, that we may truly pray in the Our Father, ‘Thy will be done’; and may God bless you this day.