In The Name of Love: Reflection for the 5th Sunday of Easter

Bono, the lead singer of U2, released a chart-topping song titled “Pride (In the Name of Love”. The song focused on how love and humility can be used in service to others. Faith, coupled with love and service, is what enables individuals to overcome adversity and leave a legacy of hope and change.

For three years, Christ’s teaching and preaching were boiled down into one simple command: love. The beloved apostle records the event that established the Catholic Church. It was during the Last Supper that Christ gave them a new task. He foreshadowed what was to come, but he shared with them his final teaching.

As St. John writes, “I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.”

Christ commissioned his apostles and disciples to spread his kingdom with love here on earth. The love of Jesus Christ for us is precisely what makes it possible to love like him in turn—he loves us first, and his love changes us. Without being loved by Christ, we will never learn to love others.

St. Therese of Lisieux reminds us that “our vocation is love.” So let us love every person that we encounter. Love is what will change the world.

Love one another