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…
This is My Commandment: love one another as I love you.
(John 15:9-17)
As God loves us…
He sent His only begotten Son… to lay down His Life for His friends.
This beautiful self-sacrificial love, love for the good of the other, in true friendship for life, unto Life eternal, is agapé, caritas, Deus Caritas Est.
“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 John 4:16).
These words from the First Letter of John express with remarkable clarity the heart of the Christian faith: the Christian image of God and the resulting image of mankind and its destiny. In the same verse, Saint John also offers a kind of summary of the Christian life: “We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us.”
