Jeremiah the prophet predicts the new covenant that Jesus the Christ will establish: “I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts. … I will be their God and they shall be My People.” The Psalmist begs for this grace: “A clean heart create for me, O God” in the words of the great penitential psalm. The second reading from Hebrews relates how Jesus carried how His divine plan, with “prayers and supplication … he became perfect, the source of eternal salvation.” In today’s Gospel, Greeks arrive seeking Jesus. Jesus speaks to His disciples, telling them the parable of the grain of wheat that must die, a veiled foretelling of His coming death and resurrection, which will save mankind from their sins. Jesus goes on to ruminate, saying He is troubled, resolving to choose His Father’s will and not His own, and asking his Father in Heaven to do His glorious will. From on high, the Father reassures His Son.