Is Your Love for Christ Ready to Say “Yes”?
- Fr. Pawel Szymanowski, CR
- John 21: 1 - 9
A Resurrectionist Vocation Minute for May 4, 3rd Sunday of Easter
Is your love for Christ ready to say “Yes”?
Three times Jesus asks Peter: “Do you love me?” Before mission comes love. Before vocation comes relationship. Discerning a call to religious life and priesthood is not first about what we do, but about whom we love. Jesus does not demand perfection — only love that is willing to grow. Is your love ready to trust Him with a “yes”?
“Bishops and priests also have to ask themselves the same question in order to understand how their love with Jesus is today: "Am I in love as much as the first day? Or do work, worries make me focus on other things and forget the love a little bit?". In marriage, the Pope said, "it's normal to argue", also because "when there's no love, [then] there's no arguing, and it breaks down". Here then is the reason why Jesus asked Peter those three questions: "to take him back to that first love". Because "the first love must never be forgotten, never!"