{"id":29266,"date":"2024-05-05T19:18:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T23:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=29266"},"modified":"2024-05-05T19:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T23:18:55","slug":"the-way-the-love-of-god-was-revealed-to-us-sixth-sunday-of-easter-b-may-5-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-way-the-love-of-god-was-revealed-to-us-sixth-sunday-of-easter-b-may-5-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way the Love of God Was Revealed To Us, Sixth Sunday of Easter (B), May 5, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nColumbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, New York<br \/>\nSixth Sunday of Easter, Year B<br \/>\nMay 5, 2024<br \/>\nActs 10:25-26.34-35.44-48, Ps 98, 1 Jn 4:7-10, Jn 15:9-17<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today&#8217;s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-29266-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.5.24_CCM_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.5.24_CCM_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.5.24_CCM_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following text guided the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the midst of the ongoing traumas, controversies and difficulties that have dramatically disrupted campus life, as students go through the various highs and lows associated with final exams, papers, moving out and transitioning to the summer or to life after Columbia, the Lord wants to help us focus on the most important constant in human life. Last week, you recall, Jesus gave us the image of the Vine and the Branches and told us that if we remain in him and he in us then he promised us we would bear great fruit. Today\u2019s words come right after that image. Having spoken about what we might call the ontological communion that\u2019s meant to exist between us and Jesus and in Jesus with others, Jesus turns to the moral communion. I think they constitute the most important words in the history of the world.<\/li>\n<li>These words are important whenever anyone says them, but the fact that God himself said them when he did, in the way that he did, and then put them into his own body language, makes them the most life-changing phrase ever: \u201cI love you,\u201d he tells us. We need to stop and ponder the reality of those words. On the night he would be betrayed by Judas and abandoned by the others, rather than thinking about the enormous physical sufferings he would endure within hours, he prioritized telling the apostles, and through them, us, \u201cI love you.\u201d But then Jesus puts those words into a context that ought to astound us even more: \u201cJust as the Father loves me, I love you.\u201d We know that God the Father cannot possibly love God the Son more perfectly, or deeply, or better than he does; he eternally loves Jesus with all he is, giving him everything except what it means to be Father. And Jesus is saying that he loves us just as much, just as profoundly, just as completely as God the Father loves him. This is the true foundation of the Christian life, to live in the love of God. God the Father so loved us that he gave his only Son so that we might not perish but have eternal life. God the Son loved us by freely and lovingly giving that life in order to save ours. God the Holy Spirit is that love between the Father and the Son and hence, since Jesus loves us like the Father loves him, the Holy Spirit is, by application, mysteriously the love between Jesus and us, and is sent down upon us like he came down upon Cornelius and his household in today\u2019s first reading to unite us to God and to all the other members of Jesus\u2019 Mystical Body. Since as St. John tells us in the epistle, \u201cGod is love,\u201d God wishes to bring us into his interpersonal, Trinitarian communion of love, and that\u2019s what Jesus\u2019 and the Holy Spirit\u2019s missions seek to achieve.<\/li>\n<li>We all know how being loved can turn someone\u2019s life right side up. I\u2019ve seen it several times over the course of my priesthood when children in foster care get adopted. I saw it regularly when I was a high school chaplain. Boys who used to come to high school with their shirts sloppy, their ties crooked, their hair a mess, would all of a sudden come in with shirts and pants pressed, the double windsor knot perfect, with every strand of hair shampooed and combed or gelled in place. When I would note the positive change that had taken place within them and ask, \u201cWhat\u2019s her name?,\u201d they would think I was a soul-reading genius. What was going on was crystal clear: they had fallen in love and that love gave meaning to everything they did, including how they prepared for school. I\u2019ve seen similar quasi-miraculous transformations many times here on campus during my first two years. If this is what can happen with a crush, imagine what is supposed to happen when we realize that God loves us with an infinite, unchanging love? If the words \u201cI love you\u201d can make a dramatic difference in a young person\u2019s existence, what about Jesus\u2019 saying, \u201cI love you just as the Father loves me?\u201d Jesus wants us to experience that life-changing truth.<\/li>\n<li>In one of the most famous passages of his pontificate, Saint John Paul II stated, \u201cMan cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it\u201d (<em>Redemptor Hominis<\/em>, 10)\u00a0If this is true about the human love we find in the family, in friendships, in chaste romances and in marriage, how much more is it true about the love of God? There\u2019s a reason for this: since we\u2019re made in the image and likeness of God who is love, if we don\u2019t live in love, if we don\u2019t dwell in a loving communion of persons, then we\u2019re lost before God, before others, and within ourselves.<\/li>\n<li>The future John Paul II as a young priest was a university chaplain at St. Florian\u2019s Church in Krakow. There he saw that many young people, made by God who is love, in love and for love, often lacked love, especially because of the traumas of the Second World War in which so many people in Poland were killed and the Nazi and then the Communist ideologies, neither of which had room for real love because it got in the way of totalitarian control. As a result they often sought love not where it could truly be found, but in various counterfeits, like utilitarian or mutually hedonistic relationships, in momentary feelings, or in different types of worldly ambitions. Father Karol Wojtyla sought in his work to try to introduce Christ\u2019s love into the human experience of seeking love, because he knew that their hearts would be restless, as St. Augustine taught, until they rest in God and his enduring love. Students today can make similar mistakes. Many have been love-deprived in one way or another and they seek the love of a father, or a mother, the love of a brother, sister, or friends in relationships that aren\u2019t really ordered to true love, to permanent commitment, and therefore will never be able to deliver. Because they haven\u2019t experienced being loved at the depth of their being, they can struggle with self-esteem issues and as a result are prone to seeking their meaning in fame, money, influence, or a prestigious degree, and are vulnerable to being taken advantage of by people instrumentalizing them for their own pleasures and aims.<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s why Jesus says to us, emphatically, that he loves us, and that he loves us as purely and perfectly as the Father loves him. He wanted that to be the foundation of the life of the first disciples and apostles, so that they would know of the love of God even after their abandoning him, so that after his resurrection, they might learn how to receive it and live it. He wants us to know it, too. St. John, who was with Jesus that night, was transformed by his words. He not only wrote them down for all of us in the Gospel that bears his name, but regularly spoke of them to the next generation of the disciples. \u201cIn this way the love of God was revealed to us,\u201d he wrote to the first Christians, \u201cGod sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.\u201d Jesus is the incarnation of the love of God for each of us. He loved me, he loved you, and as St. Paul said, he gave his life up not just for the human race but for \u201cme.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>But Jesus doesn\u2019t stop there with the proclamation of his love in the Upper Room and on Calvary. He tells us, \u201cRemain in my love.\u201d He knows that many of us run away from love in general and his love in particular. Burning love from someone else can make\u00a0us feel uncomfortable because we can think we\u2019re worthy of it, or because we know that the only response to love is to love back and we fear we may not be capable of doing so faithfully. Love is meant to change us, to lift us up, and sometimes we just don\u2019t want to cooperate with that resurrection. Like St. Peter after the Lord showed his love for him in his first miraculous catch of fish, we can cry out, not, \u201cThank you, Jesus. I love you, too!,\u201d but \u201cDepart from me, O Lord, for I am a sinful man.\u201d That\u2019s why Jesus gives us the imperative to abide in his love, to rest in it, to let it change us and become the defining characteristic of our life. We don\u2019t have to earn his love, we just need to accept it, marinate ourselves in it, and respond to it.<\/li>\n<li>That response is the third step in today\u2019s Gospel. Jesus tells us clearly <em>how <\/em>to remain in his love. \u201cIf you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love.\u201d We can\u2019t remain in his love if we break the commandments, not because he\u2019ll pull his love away from us \u2014 his love is everlasting and he\u2019ll never retract it \u2014 but because the commandments all train how love to live in the love of God and in the love of neighbor. We can see this readily by looking at the Decalogue. We can\u2019t love God if we\u2019re worshipping other gods or giving into superstitions, if we\u2019re abusing his holy name, if we\u2019re blowing him off on the Lord\u2019s Day. We can\u2019t be loving him in those\u00a0whom he loves if we\u2019re dishonoring the parents he gave us, hating or killing those he created, taking advantage of them out of lust, stealing from the goods he gave them, lying to them, or getting envious over the human relationships or material goods with which he has blessed them. All the law and the prophets, Jesus tells us, hang on the two-fold commandment of loving God and neighbor and that\u2019s why we can\u2019t remain in his love if we\u2019re violating the love that is contained in the commandments God has given us. The commandments train us how to love, and, therefore, how to remain in God, since God is love. Jesus adds here that he\u2019s not asking of us anything he himself hasn\u2019t done. He says, \u201cJust as I have kept my Father\u2019s commandments and remain in his love.\u201d Love, as Pope Benedict was accustomed to say, is\u00a0<em>idem velle, idem nolle,\u00a0<\/em>Latin for willing and rejecting the same things as the Beloved. If we love God, we\u2019re going to love what he loves. Jesus, in loving the Father, loved the Father\u2019s will. Likewise, if we truly love the Lord and remain in his love, we\u2019ll love what he loves and seek to do what he out of love wills for us and others.<\/li>\n<li>But Jesus out of love for us makes it even simpler for us to know how to remain in his love. This is the fourth step in the Gospel. He summarizes all commandments into one, which he calls a \u201cnew\u201d commandment and even \u201cmy\u201d commandment. \u201cThis is my commandment,\u201d he states, \u201clove one another as I have loved you.\u201d And he makes clear how he loves us and what real love leads to and is: It culminates in a total gift of ourselves for those whom we love. \u201cNo one has greater love than this, to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends,\u201d and then calls us his friends because he has revealed to us everything he heard from his Father. Jesus wants us to help us in turn to learn how to love one another to the point of giving of our lives for them, as he gave his life for us. While few of us will be required to die for others, when we\u2019re willing to do so, then we\u2019re much more willing to make the types of smaller sacrifices that are necessary for love to remain and grow: forgiving others, being patient with them, sacrificing some of our desires to help them fulfill their own, and so on. St. John makes that very practical in the second reading when he tells the first Christians, \u201cBeloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God for God is love.\u201d We have to love others to abide in God\u2019s love, to know God and the love he gives.<\/li>\n<li>And so we see in these words of Jesus the whole pattern of the Christian life, which begins with grace, received in faith, overflowing in love. It begins, as St. John says in the second reading, not with our love but with God\u2019s love, who sent his Son to lay down his life for us. But then that love transforms us so that we are strengthened from within to love by that same standard. Jesus says, \u201cJust as the Father loves me, so I love you,\u201d and he wants to help us be able to say, to each other and to others, \u201cJust as Jesus loves me, so I love you,\u201d treating others, like he treats us, as friends, with a willingness to sacrifice for them, to reveal to them what we have heard from God, to choose them whom God has chosen and to seek to bear fruit with them to eternal life.<\/li>\n<li>And the fruit of this entire experience of being loved by God and loving according to God\u2019s measure is true Christian happiness. Jesus, the happiest person who ever lived, says in today\u2019s Gospel, \u201cI have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy might be complete.\u201d The fruit of love is joy. We experience joy when we know how loved we are by God. We experience joy when we remain peacefully in that love without struggle. We experience joy when we share the love we have received with others and help them in turn learn the joy of being loved. We experience that joy even in great sacrifice made out of love for others, like we see in the stories of martyrs across the centuries, who were honored and willing to give their lives for the One who had given his life for theirs, for the ones for whom he had given his life, and out of witness to the love of God that conquers even death. Pope Francis has said repeatedly that the true mark of a Christian is joy and that joy is a fruit of knowing we\u2019re loved by God, remaining in that love, and loving others like Christ loves, and remaining in those bonds of love, too.<\/li>\n<li>The Lord knows that the standard of love to which he calls us is not easy. But every day at the altar he provides the means. No one has greater love than to lay down his life for his friends, he says, and every day he gives us access to that very love and life. He says we are his friends if we do what he commands us and on the same night he gave us the words of today\u2019s Gospel, he commanded us, \u201cDo <em>this <\/em>in memory of me.\u201d Here we do. In the Holy Eucharist, we receive the greatest act of love that the world has ever known, Jesus\u2019 own self-giving love from the Upper Room and Calvary in expiation for our sins, what Jesus called \u201cthe Sacrament of Love\u201d in his appearances to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque 350 years ago. It is in this love, given to us each day on the altar, that we become capable of loving each other with the love of Christ. It is here that we will be equipped to bring that love outward to campus at a time in which it very much needs it. There is indeed no greater love than the love we are about to receive. If, as St. John Paul II declared, man cannot live without love, if his life will remain incomprehensible and senseless if he doesn\u2019t encounter love, experience it, make it his own and intimately share in it, then here Christ gives us that remedy. Every time we receive the Eucharist, Jesus says to us, \u201cJust as the Father loves me, I love you right now as I give my Body and Blood, my whole life, for you. You are my friend. You are precious to me. Remain in my love by abiding in my Eucharistic presence. And learn from me from the inside how to love in this greatest way of all, by giving your body and blood out of love for others and for me. This is the way you will be filled with my joy in this world and forever.\u201d Amen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/10:25\">ACTS 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">When Peter entered, Cornelius met him<br \/>\nand, falling at his feet, paid him homage.<br \/>\nPeter, however, raised him up, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cGet up. I myself am also a human being.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Then Peter proceeded to speak and said,<br \/>\n\u201cIn truth, I see that God shows no partiality.<br \/>\nRather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly<br \/>\nis acceptable to him.\u201dWhile Peter was still speaking these things,<br \/>\nthe Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the word.<br \/>\nThe circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter<br \/>\nwere astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit<br \/>\nshould have been poured out on the Gentiles also,<br \/>\nfor they could hear them speaking in tongues and glorifying God.<br \/>\nThen Peter responded,<br \/>\n\u201cCan anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people,<br \/>\nwho have received the Holy Spirit even as we have?\u201d<br \/>\nHe ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/98:1\">PS 98:1, 2-3, 3-4<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (cf. 2b)\u00a0The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nSing to the LORD a new song,<br \/>\nfor he has done wondrous deeds;<br \/>\nHis right hand has won victory for him,<br \/>\nhis holy arm.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nThe LORD has made his salvation known:<br \/>\nin the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.<br \/>\nHe has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness<br \/>\ntoward the house of Israel.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nAll the ends of the earth have seen<br \/>\nthe salvation by our God.<br \/>\nSing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;<br \/>\nbreak into song; sing praise.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1john\/4:7\">1 JN 4:7-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Beloved, let us love one another,<br \/>\nbecause love is of God;<br \/>\neveryone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.<br \/>\nWhoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.<br \/>\nIn this way the love of God was revealed to us:<br \/>\nGod sent his only Son into the world<br \/>\nso that we might have life through him.<br \/>\nIn this is love:<br \/>\nnot that we have loved God, but that he loved us<br \/>\nand sent his Son as expiation for our sins.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/14:23\">JN 14:23<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nWhoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord,<br \/>\nand my Father will love him and we will come to him.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/15:9\">JN 15:9-17<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Jesus said to his disciples:<br \/>\n\u201cAs the Father loves me, so I also love you.<br \/>\nRemain in my love.<br \/>\nIf you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love,<br \/>\njust as I have kept my Father\u2019s commandments<br \/>\nand remain in his love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have told you this so that my joy may be in you<br \/>\nand your joy might be complete.<br \/>\nThis is my commandment: love one another as I love you.<br \/>\nNo one has greater love than this,<br \/>\nto lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.<br \/>\nYou are my friends if you do what I command you.<br \/>\nI no longer call you slaves,<br \/>\nbecause a slave does not know what his master is doing.<br \/>\nI have called you friends,<br \/>\nbecause I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.<br \/>\nIt was not you who chose me, but I who chose you<br \/>\nand appointed you to go and bear fruit that will 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