Jesus mentions the word “LOVE” four times in a gospel that is only a few sentences long. If you were to look extensively in John’s gospels you would find it many times more.
These gospels are placed in the context of the Easter Season to remind us of the simple truth of God’s unending love for us and that this love is made manifest in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ His ultimate sacrifice for our salvation. However, we are commanded in turn to love one another as God loves us.
The gospel also calls us to discipleship and the sign of this discipleship is love for one another. This too is a repeated message of the Easter Season one which we would do well to heed if we truly wish for the gospel passage to resonate in our lives.
I pray that the discipleship, so evident in our parish, continues to grow and flourish throughout the Easter Season as we make manifest God’s love in our midst and truly serve one another as Christians ought to do.