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GOSPEL POWER l MAY 20, 2022 - FRIDAY
GOSPEL POWER l MAY 20, 2022 - FRIDAY OF 5th Week of Easter
Saint Bernardine of Siena, priest
Gospel: Jn 15:12-17
Jesus said to his disciples, 12“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.”
The notion of friendship that Jesus presents in today’s Gospel is not of a one-on-one intimate relationship with him, as we so often desire. Becoming a friend of Jesus rests on the fulfillment of his love-commandment. Instead of drawing us to an exclusive connection with him, Jesus opens us up to an inclusive network of relationships among reciprocally loving and self-sacrificing friends. The presence of this community-of-love gives a powerful witness to the world and ensures that the love of Jesus will remain in the world even when he returns to where he was before.
Lord Jesus, help us to fulfill your love-commandment and be counted among your friends who keep your self-sacrificing love alive in our world today. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER l MAY 20, 2022 - FRIDAY OF 5th Week of Easter
Saint Bernardine of Siena, priest
Gospel: Jn 15:12-17
Jesus said to his disciples, 12“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.”
The notion of friendship that Jesus presents in today’s Gospel is not of a one-on-one intimate relationship with him, as we so often desire. Becoming a friend of Jesus rests on the fulfillment of his love-commandment. Instead of drawing us to an exclusive connection with him, Jesus opens us up to an inclusive network of relationships among reciprocally loving and self-sacrificing friends. The presence of this community-of-love gives a powerful witness to the world and ensures that the love of Jesus will remain in the world even when he returns to where he was before.
Lord Jesus, help us to fulfill your love-commandment and be counted among your friends who keep your self-sacrificing love alive in our world today. Amen.