MONDAY, FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER
Acts 14:5-18 Ps 115: 1-4,15-16 Jn 14:21-26
LIVING ICONS OF TRINITARIAN LOVE
As we journey through this Easter season, we are invited to experience the transformative love of the Risen Lord, a love so radical that He sacrificed Himself to free us from sin. Christ’s death on the cross embodies the ultimate love He described: “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” This divine love initiative comes from God the Father, who continually cares for us and guides us through His Son. Christ’s teachings remain eternally relevant, perfectly suited for every circumstance, era, and culture. They never mislead but always direct us toward truth and life.
The first reading presents Paul and Barnabas performing miracles through the power of the Risen Lord, only to be mistaken for pagan deities. Paul seizes this misunderstanding as a teaching moment, revealing the true God who lovingly sustains creation. Similarly, in today’s Gospel, Jesus reveals the profound unity between Himself and the Father. Keeping His commandments means loving Him, and loving Him means loving the Father. This reciprocal love becomes complete when the Father and Son send the Advocate; i.e., the Holy Spirit who dwells within the hearts of all who believe.
This is the Easter mystery we’re called to live: The Father’s love is incarnated in Christ and perpetuated through the Spirit, who continues Christ’s presence, moving us to love others divinely. To refuse the Spirit is to reject Christ and the Father. As Easter people, we become living icons of Trinitarian love when we welcome the Spirit’s promptings, embody Christ’s self giving love in relationships, and proclaim the Father’s mercy through word and deed. This is our Easter mission – to become sacraments of the Trinity’s love in our wounded world. Today, let this prayer rise from our hearts as we continue to rejoice in the mystery of Easter: Come, Holy Spirit, fill our hearts with the love of the Risen Christ, that we may radiate the Father’s mercy to all we meet.
Response: Not to us, O Lord, but to your name give the glory.
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