Today, on this Fifth Sunday of Easter, we in the United States are also celebrating Mother’s Day. We will find him whenever the love of our brothers and sisters becomes a sign of God’s love for us. But we will find him in the love that we share. And he gives this commandment because he is going away, because we will look for him but cannot follow where he is going. Jesus’ commandment is that we must love one another. And this commandment is so important, Jesus says, that it is the hallmark of being a Christian: “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” We are to love, not just with natural, human love, but as a sign of divine love. Now what makes this a new commandment? It is certainly not the first time in Holy Scripture that we are told to love one another. “I am with you only a little longer,” he says, and “you will look for me, “but where I am going you cannot come.” And because the Apostles could not at that time follow where he was going, he gives them a new commandment: that they should love one another. In these chapters, Jesus has urgent messages for his Apostles, and for us things that he wants to tell us before he goes away. John’s Gospel known as “The Last Discourse.” It takes place at the Last Supper, on the night before Jesus went to the Cross. Today’s Gospel reading comes from the chapters of St. Then, going into the room where his own new baby daughter is sleeping, he takes her in his arms and sings:Īnd we can see the cycle of love between parent and child beginning all over again.
Holding his mother close, he rocks her in his arms, and sings to her:Īnd when he returns home that night, he stands for a long time at the top of the stairs. Her son, however, has learned his lesson well. She sings to her boy, but she isn’t able to finish the song. But sometimes, on dark nights, the mother drives across town to his house, creeps into his house, and sings–well, you know what she sings:Īt last, the mother is old and sick. His mother feels like she lives in a Zoo! But guess what? At night, when he is safely asleep, she still sings to him:įinally, the boy is all grown up and moves into his own house. The boy becomes a teenager, and, of course, that’s the worst! He has strange friends and he wears strange clothes, and he listens to strange music. But still, at night, she sings their song: His mother feels like selling him to the Zoo. The baby grows some more he is nine years old, never wants to take a bath, and says bad words when his grandma visits. He becomes a toddler, and get into everything and his mother says: This kid is driving me CRAZY! But at night she still sings him their special song: She rocks him and sings a little song:Īs the years go by, of course, the baby grows. Love You Forever begins with a mother holding her new baby.
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