From Monsignor Roger Landry at the National Catholic Register:
On the night before he would be executed, during the celebration of the first Mass, Jesus poured out his heart to his Father in what was truly the first Eucharistic prayer. He prayed for his apostles and then all of us who would owe our faith in Christ to the preaching of the apostles and their collaborators and successors, asking for something specific and almost incomprehensible:
“That they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us” (John 17:20-21).
Jesus prayed that our unity with each other be as complete as the perfect unity that exists between the persons of the Blessed Trinity.
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