May 18 th, 2025 (5 Sunday Easter C)
Dear brothers and sisters,
Christ leaves to us today a new commandment he says: “love one another. As I have loved you so you should also love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” Love is in fact what distinguishes the Christians and what distinguishes us from the world. The love Christ speaks about is not any kind of love, it is a supernatural love. Love, as I have loved you. Christ in fact loved us when we were his enemies and when we sinned against him. You will not find anyone in the world that can love his enemy. Only the Christian has this kind of love. This love is a novelty. That’s why Christ says it is a new commandment. Christ gives us his Holy Spirit today to love like him. To pray for those who persecute you and to answer good to evil. If the world around us sees that we love in this new way the world will know that we are Christians and that God exists and that through us, is close to them. Christ is the first one to love us in this way. Let us welcome this love that makes all things new, destroying sin and selfishness in us and giving us a new spirit that can love in this new heavenly dimension like Jesus Christ forgiving and loving every person.