CAMPUS MINISTRY

FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER

In this week’s Gospel, Jesus says "love one another". So simple to say, yet so hard to do!

Real love, love that wants the best for another person, can’t happen if we are only thinking of what we shall get out of our love - of the happiness we shall receive,  or the loneliness we shall suffer if love is not returned. If we are honest though, we have to confess that sometimes, when we love, it is our happiness that we are seeking and not the happiness of the one we love.

When Jesus loved his disciples, he never thought of himself. His one desire was to give himself and all he had for those he loved. To love as Jesus loved us is to put others, and not ourselves, first and at the centre of the picture.

It has been said that we never really know people until we have lived with them! If we only meet them occasionally, we see them at their best.

It is when we live with someone that we discover their moods, their irritabilities and their weaknesses. The Gospel encourages us to make our heart big enough to love others as they are.

Once again - so simple to say, yet so hard to do! But, it is the only way to love our neighbour as Jesus loved his disciples.

Let us ask the Risen Lord to teach us how to love. He loved all those he met warmly and openly.  May he grant us the grace and the courage to do the same: to love as he loved us!

RNDM WISDOM

CATHOLIC YOUTH MINISTRY SURVEY

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Mr Chris Kan

Dean of Campus Ministry