Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Friend, of Love

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 05.15.22 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Fifth Sunday of Easter

John 13:31-33a, 34-35

Friends, today’s Gospel instructs us in the way of loving others with God’s love.
We find joy in God alone, for our souls have been wired for God.
But here’s the trick, and the whole of the Christian life is on display here:
God is love. . . .
Love is God.
God is self-emptying on behalf of the other.
But this means, paradoxically, that to have God is to be what God is—
and that means giving one’s life away.

Now we see the link between joy and commandments:
"I give you a new commandment: love one another.
As I have loved you, so you also should love one another."
And now we begin to understand the laws, commands, and demands of the Church.
All are designed to make us more adept at giving ourselves away.
Don’t steal; don’t kill;
don’t covet your neighbor’s goods or wife;
honor your mother and father;
worship God.
All of these commands—positive and negative—
are meant to awaken and make possible love.

Notice, please, that we are to love with a properly divine love:
"I have called you friends,
because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father."
Radical, radical, radical.
Complete, excessive, over-the-top.

[MurphsLaw]

+++When Judas had left them,
Jesus said,
“Now is the Son of Man glorified,
and God is glorified in him.
If God is glorified in him,
God will also glorify him in himself,
and God will glorify him at once.
My children, I will be with you only
a little while longer.
I give you a new commandment:
love one another.
As I have loved you, so you also
should love one another.
This is how all will know that you
are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”+++

[ebb tide]

Speaking of Barron's "love":

Resigning employees call for change amid Word on Fire controversy

[MurphsLaw]

Bore me to death satan...

[ebb tide]

Yes, Boobie Barron will do that to you.

When will you wake up?

[ebb tide]

Here's your "Satan", Murph:

American Bishop Barron: Scandalous “Superstar”

[MurphsLaw]

You will not prevail...
Besides ... what your beef?
A Sed like you ought to love the fact this Bishop is taking the Church off the rails...
You celebrate death to the Catholic Church 3-4 times a day- 100 posts a month!!

You should CELEBRATE THIS HERESY!!!

DON'T YOU FEEL VALIDATED BY IT?
C'MON SCREWTAPE!!! ENJOY...

[ebb tide]

“Sed”, “satan”, “Screwtape”??

Is that all you and your homo-heretic bishop have: ad hominems??

How mature! How christian!

So much for Barron’s “love”

[ebb tide]

...love the fact this Bishop (Barron) is taking the Church off the rails...

Thanks for admitting it. So please stop pimping him.