Today’s Daily Lesson is in observance of the Feast of St John Daily Lesson is from John chapter 13:
34I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. 35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
St John comes to remind us this morning of the one essential thing: Love.
All Christians everywhere ought to dedicate themselves to love in this coming year. Love of friends. Love of family. Love of neighbors. Love of the Church. Love of enemies, and immigrants, and refugees, and homeless. Love even of politicians and heads of state and all people in places of authority. Love of self that makes love of others possible.
Soon we’ll be taking down stockings and packing up the tree. Christmas comes and it goes. But love remains. Love never ends.
At the end of A Christmas Carrol Ebenezer Scrooge pledges, “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
Let us honor Christmas by trying to keep love alive all the year long.
And by this everyone will know that we are His disciples . . .
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