From today’s Gospel, again from St John: ‘“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.’ (John 15:12-13)

St John Chrysostom commented: ‘This is the commandment, “that you love one another as I have loved you”. Do you see that the love of God is intertwined with our own, and connected like a sort of chain? Wherefore it sometimes says that there are two commandments, sometimes only one.  For it is not possible that the man who has taken hold on the first should not possess the second also. … He does not simply speak of love, but declares also the manner, “As I have loved you”.

May this love take root in our hearts, that we may truly love God, and our neighbour as ourselves (cf. Matthew 22:37-40); and may God bless you this day.