SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER JOHN 17:1-11A Friends, in todays Gospel Jesus, the high priest of the New Covenant, asks the Father to give eternal life to his followers. But whereas the ordinary high priests of the Old Testament passed through the veil into the earthly holy of holies and offered an inadequate sacrifice, the perfect high priest passed into the heavenly sanctuary, bearing the sins of the world and bringing forth the divine forgiveness: But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come to be .