MAY 14 - THE GOSPEL breski1 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 15,9-17. Jesus said to his disciples: "As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my …More
MAY 14 - THE GOSPEL
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Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 15,9-17.
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 may be in you and your joy may 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."
Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
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Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus (1894 - 1967)
Carmelite, Founder of Notre Dame de Vie
Wisdom of Love p. 334-336
Wisdom carries us in her design of love
This Wisdom is of love. She is at the service of God who is love. Now, love is goodness communicating itself. It needs to pour itself out, and finds its joys in giving self —a joy that is in the measure of the gift it makes, and the quality of that gift. Because she is entirely at the service of God, Wisdom uses all her resources to communicate love. Wisdom rejoices to be with the children of men, for in their souls she can pour out grace, the best of created gifts grace is a participation in the life of God.
This Wisdom of Love is essentially active. This activity is not merely transient; it is abiding. If love ceased for one instant to communicate itself, it would be no longer love; for love that becomes static degenerates into egoism. God ceaselessly engenders His Son; from the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit constantly proceeds; that is why God is eternal Love. The love which has been poured out on us cannot remain static in our souls. It must ascend once more whence it came, having made us the instruments of a further giving of itself.
Taking us captive the Wisdom of love introduces us into the inner current of the divine life in the bosum of the Trinity. Enlisting us as her co-operators in attaining her divine designs, making us channels of grace and instruments of her action. Love is essentially dynamic and dynamogenic. Holy Wisdom is concerned with souls less for itself than for her own divine purpose. And this only purpose is the Church, she choses us as members of the Church that we may hold a place in it and fulfill a mission.
breski1
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 15,9-17.
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 may be in you and your joy may 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."
Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
Share the Gospel on Facebook
Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus (1894 - 1967)
Carmelite, Founder of Notre Dame de Vie
Wisdom of Love p. 334-336
Wisdom carries us in her design of love
This Wisdom is of love. She is at the service of God who is love. Now, love is goodness communicating itself. It needs to pour itself out, and finds its joys in giving self —a joy that is in the measure of the gift it makes, and the quality of that gift. Because she is entirely at the service of God, Wisdom uses all her resources to communicate love. Wisdom rejoices to be with the children of men, for in their souls she can pour out grace, the best of created gifts grace is a participation in the life of God.
This Wisdom of Love is essentially active. This activity is not merely transient; it is abiding. If love ceased for one instant to communicate itself, it would be no longer love; for love that becomes static degenerates into egoism. God ceaselessly engenders His Son; from the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit constantly proceeds; that is why God is eternal Love. The love which has been poured out on us cannot remain static in our souls. It must ascend once more whence it came, having made us the instruments of a further giving of itself.
Taking us captive the Wisdom of love introduces us into the inner current of the divine life in the bosum of the Trinity. Enlisting us as her co-operators in attaining her divine designs, making us channels of grace and instruments of her action. Love is essentially dynamic and dynamogenic. Holy Wisdom is concerned with souls less for itself than for her own divine purpose. And this only purpose is the Church, she choses us as members of the Church that we may hold a place in it and fulfill a mission.