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Today our Lord invites us to fraternal love: \u201cLove one another as I have loved you\u201d (Jn 15:12), that is, as you have seen me love and as you will see me love again. Jesus speaks to you as a friend, for he told you that his Father is calling you, that he wants you to become apostles, and that he expects you to bear fruit, fruit that is expressed in love. Saint John Chrysostom says, \u201cIf love were to spread everywhere, infinite goodness would be born from it.\u201d Giving love is equivalent to creating life. Spouses know this well because they love each other, give themselves to each other, and accept the role of parents by being ready at the same time to renounce and deny themselves.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

They give their strength, their time, and a piece of their existence for the benefit of those they must care for, protect, educate, and, in short, serve. Missionaries know this too, who, with the same Christian spirit of sacrifice and renunciation, offer their lives for the Gospel. And so do religious priests and bishops, and with them all the disciples of Jesus who have consecrated themselves to our Savior. Jesus had already told you a little earlier what is required for love and fruit-bearing: \u201cAmen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit\u201d (Jn 12:24).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus invites you to lose your life, to give it to him without fear, to die voluntarily if necessary, so that you can love your brother with the love of Christ, and indeed the supernatural love. Jesus invites you to strive for concrete expressions of love; This is how the Apostle James understood it when he saidreligious a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, \u2018Keep warm and well fed,\u2019 but you do not give them the things needed for the body, what good is it? So faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.\u201d (James 2:15-17).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thoughts on today\u2019s Gospel<\/span>
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\nIf you are looking for an example of love: No one has greater love than this: to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends. Such a person was Christ on the cross. And if he laid down his life for us, it should not be difficult for us to endure any hardship that comes our way. \u203a St. Thomas Aquinas.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Our definition of love must be based on contemplating Jesus\u2019 death on the cross. In this contemplation, the Christian discovers the path along which his life and love must follow \u203a Benedict XVI<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

By uniting himself in his human heart with the Father’s love for men, Jesus “showed his love to the end” (Jn 13:1), because “greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (Jn 15:13). Thus, in his suffering and death, Jesus’ humanity became the free and perfect instrument of his divine love, which wants all men to be saved. He freely accepted his suffering and death out of love for his Father and for the men whom the Father wants to save: “No one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord” (Jn 10:18). Hence the supreme freedom of the Son of God when he voluntarily goes to death \u203a Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 609.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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