sl8n Baccalaureate: Love -> Joy

By e May 20, 2022 Jesus Stuff No Comments

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 may 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.”

Jn 15:9-17

“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy might be complete…” And what is “this”? “This” is to love. Jesus told us to love so that our joy can be full.

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God rejoices over us

By e December 12, 2021 Homilies, Jesus Stuff No Comments

3rd Sunday of Advent

I noticed something new to me this year in our reading for this third Sunday of Advent – Gaudete Sunday.

The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior;
he will rejoice over you with gladness, and renew you in his love,  he will sing joyfully because of you, as one sings at festivals.

We rejoice, of course. We rejoice because our God comes to us. We rejoice in the sights and smells and delights of this season. Our hearts rejoice as we see kindness abound. We delight in the delight of children as they anticipate and experience the joys of both giving and receiving generously. But it is not only the people of God who rejoice.

God rejoices. 

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Dios Se Regocija por Nosotros

By e December 12, 2021 Homilies, Jesus Stuff No Comments

III Domingo de Adviento

Noté algo nuevo para mí este año en nuestra lectura para este tercer domingo de Adviento, el domingo de Gaudete.

El Señor, tu Dios, tu poderoso salvador, está en medio de ti. Él se goza y se complace en ti; él te ama y se llenará de júbilo por tu causa, como en los días de fiesta”.

Nos regocijamos, por supuesto. Nos regocijamos porque nuestro Dios viene a nosotros. Nos regocijamos con las vistas, los olores y las delicias de esta temporada. Nuestro corazón se regocija al ver que abunda la bondad. Nos deleitamos en el deleite de los niños cuando anticipan y experimentan el gozo de dar y recibir generosamente. Pero no solo el pueblo de Dios se regocija.

Dios se regocija. 

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