{"id":6739,"date":"2023-05-13T12:12:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T19:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=6739"},"modified":"2023-05-13T12:12:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T19:12:38","slug":"mutual-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2023\/05\/13\/mutual-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutual Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Last Supper is marked by many signs of love. St. John\u2019s Gospel makes that abundantly clear. Jesus knew that his hour to depart had come,  and \u201cHaving loved his own who were in the world, He loved them to the end\u201d (Jn 13:1). As a sign of his love, Jesus stooped down to wash the feet of his friends. When Peter objected and Jesus threatened to abandon him, Peter cried out, \u201cLord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.\u201d In so many ways a broken friendship with Jesus affected him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, John portrayed the unthinkable, that one of Jesus\u2019 friends would betray him. Peter and John were side by side with Jesus. John, \u201cthe one whom Jesus loved,\u201d was able to learn from Jesus that Judas was the betrayer. He was identified by the friendly, brotherly gesture of Jesus, dipping a morsel of bread, and offering it to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How different was the atmosphere Jesus wanted to create for his troubled followers. He spoke to them of a new commandment of love. Their first thought was not to fear God, but to love him and to prove it by mutual love between brothers and sisters. \u201cI give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you must love one another.\u201c Such conduct would be the sign of our Christian faith. \u201cBy this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.\u201d Through his great love for us, Jesus was sacrificing himself to open the Kingdom of Heaven for his loved ones .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. John, Apostle of Love, recorded this explosion of love bursting from the heart of Jesus, and John would not be silenced. He went on to tell why Jesus was leaving them, \u201cto prepare a place for them.\u201d Jesus wanted them to remain close to him, to share in heaven the homes his Father had ready. But they and we do have our own responsibility. Jesus was clear. \u201cThose who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them\u201d (Jn 14:23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faithful disciples of Jesus are meant to live in the boundless abyss of God\u2019s Love, with him and in him forever. Heaven is the place of always satisfied, everlasting, never waning Love.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB The Last Supper is marked by many signs of love. St. John\u2019s Gospel makes that abundantly clear. Jesus knew that his hour to depart had come,  and \u201cHaving loved his own who were in the world, He loved them to the end\u201d (Jn 13:1). As a sign of his love, Jesus stooped down to wash the feet of his friends. … Continuar leyendo Mutual Love<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":6060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20310044],"tags":[35890],"class_list":["post-6739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-province-news","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/intouch-2023-1.png?fit=904%2C1104&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-1KH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6741,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions\/6741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}