Homily Points

Sixth Sunday of EASTER

General. God’s love towards us when He gave up His Only Son for our salvation is recalled on this Sunday. If this kind of love is to be found within us, we can begin testifying unto it by fulfilling the works of life everlasting as from our own lifetime.

Acts of the Apostles. Conversion and the baptismal waters are open to all humanity since it is through them that the Holy Spirit permeates over all beings and enters into any person who acts righteously and lives in the fear of God. This fear really means doing one’s best not to lose the love and affection given by the Father, the same as one would have received from one’s own parent.

First Epistle of St John. St John speaks clearly about God being love. So has Pope Benedict XVI in his first Encyclical Letter done, denoting the meanings of eros (which is not necessarily erotic love), agape and charitas. God’s love has been shown us most magnificently when He sent His Only Son to redeem us not when we were His friends, but when we were His enemies through sin.

St John. The greatest commandment given to us by Jesus is to love one another. The same way Jesus received the Father’s love, he commands us to be constantly in the Father’s love so that we might live out that real joy which only He can give us.

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