"Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, though you will follow me later. Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crow before you deny me three times."
John 13:36, 38
We must experience the love of God before we can follow Jesus with an undivided heart. Peter loved Jesus and earnestly desired to follow him, but he did not yet know the depth of Jesus' love for him and his own love had not yet matured through suffering. Jesus' first instruction to his disciples after he commanded them love one another as I have loved you was watch and pray, to remain close to him although he would be taken away. This is our instruction also, our induction into the school of love, to watch and pray, remaining by Jesus' side before and above all else.
Chant:
Ave verum corpus, natum de Maria Virgine, vere passum, immolatum in cruce pro homine,Hail, true Body, born of the Virgin Mary, having truly suffered, sacrificed on the cross for mankind,
cuius latus perforatum fluxit aqua et sanguine: esto nobis praegustatum mortis in examine.
whose pierced side flowed with water and blood: be for us a foretaste [of Heaven] in the trial of death.
O Jesu dulcis, O Jesu pie, O Jesu, fili Mariae.
O sweet Jesus, O loving Jesus, O Jesus, Son of Mary.
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