6th Sunday of Easter

05-10-2026Weekly ReflectionFather Chris

Dear Fellow Disciples, peace.

This Sunday, the Gospel gives us a simple but demanding mark of discipleship: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (Jn 14:15). Jesus does not reduce discipleship to feelings or good intentions. Love becomes concrete—lived, embodied, visible. And He promises that we will not live this alone: the Father will send the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, who remains with us and within us.

Discipleship, then, is not a burden we carry by our own strength. It is a relationship we receive and live. The Spirit teaches us how to love as Christ loves—faithfully, patiently, sacrificially.

Today, we also celebrate Mother’s Day, and this sheds a beautiful light on the Gospel. A mother’s love is often the first school of discipleship. In her quiet sacrifices, her perseverance, her care in the ordinary, we see what it means to “keep” the commandment of love. Not in grand gestures, but in daily fidelity.

Mothers remind us that love is not abstract. It wakes up in the middle of the night. It forgives. It teaches. It endures. In this way, every mother becomes a living icon of the Holy Spirit’s presence—gentle, guiding, strengthening.

For all of us, whether we are mothers or not, the call is the same: to let the Spirit form in us a love that is real. A love that keeps Christ’s word in the small and hidden moments of life.

Today, we give thanks for our mothers—living and deceased—and we entrust them to the care of God.

We ask for the grace to be true disciples: not only saying we love Christ, but living that love, day by day, through the power of the Holy Spirit.

God Bless,

Father Chris