Gospel: John 13:31-33a,
34-35
When Judas had left
them, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in
him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and God
will glorify him at once. My children, I will be with you only a little while
longer. I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so
you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my
disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Reflection:
A Wife was distraught
upon discovering that her husband had fathered a child outside of their
marriage. She confronted him, the husband admitted his sin and asked for
forgiveness but she never forgave him for what he did.
There’s an absence
of true love in this story otherwise the wife could have forgiven the betrayal of her husband. And they could have
started afresh as if nothing happened. But such is our attitude we oftentimes
harbor in our hearts hatred instead of love and forgiveness.
When Jesus told the
apostles to love one another He meant that their love for each other must be like
His love for them. And what is the love of Jesus? It’s a love that forgives, a
love that is not dependent on the love that it receives. A love that doesn’t
count the cost of loving and a love that is very much willing sacrifice.
Perhaps, what Jesus wants
to convey to us is we should try our very best to love as He loves. To love
without counting the cost of loving and to love by being ready to suffer for
the person that we love.
But some of us may
say that this kind of love doesn’t fit anymore our modern times where love and
sex is not anymore regarded with sacredness. Where forgiveness and martyrdom
for the person that we love is not anymore part of the vocabulary of the many
young people of today.
When you love as
Jesus loves you would also be willing to forgive no matter how deep the wound
that it caused you. You would be willing to bury the past and let bygones be
bygones. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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