Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter

Jesus said to his disciples: “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 might be in you and your joy might 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.” -John 15:9-17

God’s love for us is so deep, so vast, and unending. I have seen and felt it, yet I cannot put it into words or even fathom its immensity. And to think that Our Lord, who is so far above us in every way, calls us friends.

Jesus gives His friends what would seem an easy enough command: “Love one another as I love you.” Simple enough, right? Yet, baring His mother, Mary, there has not been another soul alive who could comprehend the complexity of those words.

While on this earth, we cannot love God the way He deserves; we can love Him only to the fullest of our human capability. As His chosen friend, we offer Him love whenever we show love to one another. When we wonder how we will love certain people, we only need to answer because Christ loves him first.

He is risen! He is risen indeed. Hallelujah!

Saint Matthias the Apostle, pray for us.

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Jesus, I trust in you!