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𝐆𝐎𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐋

John 15:9-17

As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.

I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command you: love one another.

Reflection:

𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻-𝑔𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉. (2346)

To have a heart full of love means to be so pleased with something that one emerges from oneself and devotes oneself to it. A musician can devote himself to a masterpiece. A kindergarten teacher can be there wholeheartedly for her charges. In every friendship there is love. The most beautiful form of love on earth, however, is the love between man and woman, in which two people give themselves to each other forever. All human love is an image of divine love, in which all love is at home. Love is the inmost being of the Triune God. In God there is continual exchange and perpetual self-giving. Through the overflowing of divine love, we participate in the eternal love of God. The more a person loves, the more he resembles God. Love should influence the whole life of a person, but it is realized with particular depth and symbolism when man and woman love one another in marriage and become "one flesh" (Gen 2,24).
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𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑:

Lord our God, teach us to remain in Your Love and to keep Your Commandments just as You keep me as one of Your friends. May Your joy be our joy and Your joy may be complete; to love one another as You have loved me because no love is greater than Your Love for us. In Jesus Name, Amen.