Fifth Sunday of Easter

This weekend we celebrate the 5th Sunday of Easter Season but before I share my thoughts about the reading, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mary Fergerson and the Garden committee for planting flowers and keeping the flowerbeds beautiful and ready for the months ahead. Thank you very much.

In today's Gospel Reading, Jesus gives us a new commandment by saying "Just as I have loved you, you also should love one anothe". To this, Jesus adds, "by this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another". By shining in love towards one another, others will know that we are the disciples of Jesus.

The love that we have for our brothers and sisters in Christ is a reflection of the love that we have for God. If we love God, we seek to please Him in all things. To please God, we have to obey the commandment of Jesus to love one another. By our obedience to this commandment, our love is perfected in the Lord Jesus so the heavenly father may love us as He loves His only begotten Son. Perfect love unites the children of God without exception.

In today's First Reading from the Acts of the Apostles, we read of the praiseworthy service of love that the Christians had for each other in the Lord. Paul and Barnabas continue on their mission rom town to town strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. We also read that some non-believers persecute Christians.

In his love for Jesus, St. Paul appoints elders to lead the believers in each church. With prayer and fasting, he and Barnabas entrust them to the Lord in whom they have come to believe. When they complete their mission, they call the church together and relate all that God has done with them and how he has opened a door of faith for the gentiles.

Today's Second Reading from the book of Revelation helps us to understand the purpose of the progressive development of the spiritual wonders of God within the Holy catholic Church.

The new heaven and the new earth are spiritual domains that are here now, co-existing with our world. They are the fulfillment of God's promise through Isaiah by saying "I am about to do a new thing for I am about  to create new heavens and a new earth."

Through our membership in the Mystical Body of Christ, which includes the Kingsom of God on earth, we are drawn to love and worship God as we were created to love and worship HIm. Through our spiritual growth during our daily personal relationship with God, we obtain the necessary graces for the love of God through God's creation of new things, we are justified and sanctified so our service of love in the Lord Jesus may shine towards our brothers and sisters as it was meant to shine.

                                          May  God bless all of us,

                                                                 Fr. Dariusz

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