Both readings today are farewell statements. In the Gospel Jesus is speaking His final words to His disciples at the Last Supper. Soon He will leave for the Garden of Gethsemane and the beginning of His Passion, His "moment of glory." By His death, life will come to us and this is life: to know the Father, the Father of Jesus, and to know Jesus Himself. To 'know Jesus' is to be totally identified with His Way, including the Way of the Cross. And Jesus prays that His followers may go out and share that 'knowing' of Jesus with people everywhere so that they, too, may have life. Paul, too, is saying his farewell to the elders of the Church at Ephesus. He, too, is going to his final destiny of giving his life for the Gospel. He is leaving them to go to Jerusalem, uncertain of what is going to happen there. He is leaving them to carry on the work he was doing - to share the Message and Way of Christ with the people among whom they live and work. Jesus and Paul are giving the same message to us. How will we respond?