Today we contemplate that Jesus gave us a new commandment: love one another. How much love and charity is in your day to day life?
At the Last Supper, Jesus tells the Eleven: “As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. All will know that you are my disciples if you love one another.”
The love of Jesus Christ for us is precisely what makes it possible to love like him in turn—he loves us first, and his love changes us. And when we bear his own love for one another, this moves others to believe in Christ, to know that “God’s dwelling is with the human race.”
This is how Paul and Barnabas “made a considerable number of disciples.” They spoke of their love of God, through their words and actions, allowing Christ’s light to shine and attract others to a newness of life.
Will you be known by your love?
Graciously be present to your people, we pray, O Lord, and lead those you have imbued with heavenly mysteries to pass from former ways to newness of life.
Through Christ our Lord
Smitten With Goodness 