Sunday, May 5, 2024 is from 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…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…This I command you: love one another.”
Reflection
“Jesus tells us, the ultimate show of love is ‘to lay down one’s life for one’s friends’. Love is over-the-moon wonderful until you start talking about its cost. Love can cause you to put someone else’s life before your own. Love can leave you vulnerable. Love can lead to heartbreak and grief. But this is what Jesus himself did, and what he calls us to do. Self-sacrificing love is the countercultural and, to many, absurd idea of putting others before yourself, for, as John wrote in his letter, God is love, and this, from the start of creation, is what God has done.” SOURCE: Pastoral Patterns, Summer 2024
DAILY READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday Acts of the Apostles 16:11-15; John 15:26—16:4a
Tuesday Acts of the Apostles 16:22-34; John 16:5-11
Wednesday Acts of the Apostles 17:15, 22—18:1; John 16:12-15
Thursday Acts of the Apostles 18:1-8; John 16:16-20
Friday Acts of the Apostles 18:9-18; John 16:20-23
Saturday Acts of the Apostles 16:1-10; John 15:18-21
SOURCE: Living with Christ, May 2024
Beloved, let us love one another,
because love is of God;
everyone who loves is begotten by God
and knows God.
1 John 4:7