FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

Today’s Gospel reading comes from the chapters of St. John’s Gospel known as “The Last Discourse.” It takes place at the Last Supper, on the night before Jesus went to the Cross. In these chapters, Jesus has urgent messages for his Apostles, and for us; things that he wants to tell us before he goes away. “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.

Jesus’ commandment is that we must love one another. And he gives this commandment because he is going away, because we will look for him but cannot follow where he is going. But we will find him in the love that we share. We will find him whenever the love of our brothers and sisters becomes a sign of God’s love for us.

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