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"This I command you: love one another."
May 14, 2025
St. Matthias
Dear Family of Mary!
Our Gospel today:
John 15:9-17
Jesus
said to his disciples: "As the Father loves me, so I also love you.
Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my
love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his
love.
I
have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be
complete. This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No
one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's
friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer
call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing.
I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have
heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you
and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that
whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command
you: love one another."
This is
the heart of Jesus' teachings, the very center of His Being! Love. How
is it that we stray from this teaching so easily? Maybe it is because
it is difficult. To love means to die to self.
Our Lady
has called us to love, speaking to us with Her Immaculate Heart of Love.
Pray the Rosary today with these messages together with our Gospel.
May it bring us closer to the Loving Hearts of Jesus and Mary:
December
13, 1984 "Dear children! You know that the season of joy is getting
closer, but without love you will achieve nothing. So first of all,
begin to love your own family, everyone in the parish, and then you'll
be able to love and accept all who are coming over here. Now let these
seven days be a week when you need to learn to love. Thank you for
having responded to my call."
March
27, 1986 "Dear children! I wish to thank you for all the sacrifices and
I invite you to the greatest sacrifice, the sacrifice of love. Without
love, you are not able to accept neither me nor my Son. Without love,
you cannot give an account of your experiences to others. Therefore,
dear children, I call you to begin to live love within yourselves. Thank
you for having responded to my call."
May
29, 1986 "Dear children! Today my call to you is that in your life you
live love toward God and neighbor. Without love, dear children, you can
do nothing. Therefore, dear children, I am calling you to live in mutual
love. Only in that way will you be able to love and accept both me and
all those around you who are coming into your parish. Everyone will
sense my love through you. Therefore, I beseech you, dear children, to
start loving from today with an ardent love, the love with which I love
you. Thank you for having responded to my call."
April
25, 1995 "Dear children! Today I call you to love. Little children,
without love you can neither live with God nor with brother. Therefore, I
call all of you to open your hearts to the love of God that is so great
and open to each one of you. God, out of love for man, has sent me
among you to show you the path of salvation, the path of love. If you do
not first love God, then you will neither be able to love neighbor nor
the one you hate. Therefore, little children, pray and through prayer
you will discover love. Thank you for having responded to my call."
November
25, 1995 "Dear Children! Today I invite you that each of you begin
again to love, in the first place, God who saved and redeemed each of
you, and then brothers and sisters in your proximity. Without love,
little children, you cannot grow in holiness and cannot do good deeds.
Therefore, little children, pray without ceasing that God reveals His
love to you. I have invited all of you to unite yourselves with me and
to love. Today I am with you and invite you to discover love in your
hearts and in the families. For God to live in your hearts, you must
love. Thank you for having responded to my call."
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV
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