Today's brief gospel passage, John 13: 31-33a, 34-35) contains the core of all the teachings of Jesus: love one another. All is summed up in these three words. Later on in the First Epistle of John we read, not just to talk of love, but to love in "deed and truth" (1 Jn 3:18). By loving, people will know that we are the disciples of Jesus. In St. Marcellin's Spiritual Testament, he clearly states, :"Let it be said of the Little Brothers of Mary as it was of the first Christians, :"See how they love one another." God shows us how to do this...he gives, gives, gives...he is a "giving God" and asks us to be "giving people". There is not limit to his over-the top giving and there can be no limit to ours. Lavish giving of time, of self, of what is most dear to us, is what shocks people (in a good way), to say: That's how I want to be." So, let us love, give and send needed shock-waves to our self-centered world.
Bro. Rene
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