Sixth Sunday of Easter
READINGS FOR THE COMING WEEK:
- First reading
- Acts 10:44-48
- Psalm
- Psalm 98
- Second reading
- 1 John 5:1-6
- Gospel
- John 15:9-17
The gospel from John:
Jesus said “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
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ca. 2000 Doi Inthanon National Park
Plaque
Chom Thong District, Thailand
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This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.
You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.