Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter

Pope Saint John I (d. 526)

Readings of the day: RB 3:7-13

Mass: Ac 25:13b-21; Resp Ps 103; Jn 21:15-19

Pope's Processional Cross 1987, Aspell / Bacigalupi / Kuklish, Maker

Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?

This is what Scripture scholar N.T. Wright has to say about today’s Gospel account:‘The brief conversation between Jesus and Peter in Jn 21[15-19] is one of the most moving human encounters ever recorded. There is a love, a deep, moving warmth that goes out from Jesus. But this love is strong, powerful, life-changing, life-directing. New creation has begun; and its motivating power is love’ (Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters, p. 194).

Are you open and ready to encounter LOVE today?

God infinitely transcends us; he is full of surprises. We are not the ones to determine when and how we will encounter him; the exact times and places of that encounter are not up to us.

(Gaudete et Exsultate, 41)

FOLLOW ME.