Homilies and Reflection. Biyernes sa Ika-5 Linggo sa Muling Pagkabuhay
May 4, 2018. Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter Reflection on the Holy Gospel according to John 15: 12-17 Jesus said to his disciples: "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." Reflection (Sem. Eldrick S. Peña) Today, Jesus calls us into a different kind of relationship – Friendship. And one requisite for friendship to exist is love – that kind of love that Jesus Himself showed to us, a love that is willing to sacrifice, to endure suffering for the be...