恭讀聖若望福音 15:9-17

那時候,耶穌對門徒說:「正如父愛了我,同樣我也愛了你們;你們應存在我的愛內。如果你們遵守我的命令,便存在我的愛內,正如我遵守了我父的命令,而存在他的愛內一樣。
「我對你們講論了這些事,為使我的喜樂存在你們內,使你們的喜樂圓滿無缺。
「這是我的命令:你們該彼此相愛,如同我愛了你們一樣。人如果為自己的朋友,捨掉性命,再沒有比這更大的愛情了。
「你們如果實行我所命令你們的,你們就是我的朋友。我不再稱你們為僕人,因為僕人不知道他主人所做的事。我稱你們為朋友,因為凡由我父聽來的一切,我都顯示給你們了。
「不是你們揀選了我,而是我揀選了你們,並派你們去結果實,去結常存的果實;如此,你們因我的名,無論向父求什麼,他必賜給你們。
「這就是我命令你們的:你們應該彼此相愛。」

—上主的話。

(6th Sunday of Easter)

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John 15:9-17

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.
“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy might be complete. 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.”

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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