Reflections on Sunday's Mass: May 17, 2009

Posted Sun, 05/17/2009 - 01:00

This is the 6th Sunday of Easter.

We reflect on what authentic love can mean, and how we can incarnate this divine-human relationship in our relationship with others. For the early Christians, it meant reaching out to the Gentiles. Toward whom should we be reaching? What barriers do we put in the way of Christ’s love in our time?

  • Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48. God shows no partiality - what can stop these foreigners from receiving the Spirit?
  • 1 John 4:7-10. We know what it means to love because God has first loved us – it is God’s love which forms us into the Beloved Community.
  • John 15:9-17. There is no greater love than to give your life for another—we must love one another as God has loved us.