Gospel Sixth Sunday of Easter - May 10, 2015 Fr. Bill Grimm

COMMENT:  

U.K. General Election 7 May 2015; 

The village of Garvald. East Lothian, had the Polling Station.

The community of Sancta Maria Abbey, all who wished, made their votes. 

Frs. Leonard and Raymond at the exit Polling

Religious orders:

Monks from Sancta Maria Abbey in Nunraw cast their votes at a polling station in Garvald, East Lothian,

while Tyburn nuns vote at St John's Hyde Park,

Central London

The Sisters of Tyburn Convent, London

 The Scottish Mail

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3071533/Now-talking-stops-Britain-goes-polls-unpredictable-election-generation-one-four-don-t-know-vote-for.html#ixzz3ZeYYyEi5 

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Sunday Gospel Reflection With Fr. Bill Grimm

International May 08, 2015 Today's continuation of our Easter celebration is a joyous proclamation of the great love God shows in calling us to be united with Christ. It is a day to look at our faults and failings and put them in perspective.

DGO Gospel:
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John15:9-17.

Jesus said to his disciples: "As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.  ..... Commentary of the day : 

Saint Augustine (354-430), Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church 

Sermons on St. John, no. 65 

“As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Live on in my love.”

The Lord Jesus affirms that he is giving his disciples a new commandment: that of mutual love… Did this commandment not already exist in the Old Law, since it is written: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Lev 19:18)? So why does the Lord call "new" a commandment that was so obviously old? Is it a new commandment because, in stripping us of the old man, he clothes us with the new one (Eph 4:24)? Certainly, the person who listens to this commandment, or rather, who obeys it, is not renewed by just any love but by the love that the Lord carefully distinguishes from purely natural love, when he says, “as I have loved you.” … Christ gave us the new commandment to love one another as he has loved us. This is the love that renews us, that makes us into new persons, heirs to the new covenant, singers of the “new song” (Ps 96:1).

Dearly beloved, this love renewed even the righteous ones of past times, the patriarchs and the prophets, just as it later renewed the holy apostles. It is the love that now renews the pagan nations. This love raises up and gathers together a new people from the entire human race scattered over the whole earth, the body of the new Spouse of the Son of God.