Again from our New Testament reading, from 1 John: ‘By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit’.

St Augustine commented: ‘Begin to love; you shall be perfected. Have you begun to love? God has begun to dwell in you: love Him that has begun to dwell in you, that by more perfect indwelling He may make you perfect’.

St John is the great Evangelist who writes so beautifully about our ‘abiding’ or ‘dwelling’ in God, and He in us, both in his Gospel and in his letters.

May we truly abide in Him, in our prayer and in our lives; and may God bless you this day.