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Our Gospel proclamation today comes at the conclusion of John's Gospel - and a more dramatic conclusion would be hard to imagine. For in reality, the question that Jesus addresses to Peter is also being directed to each of us: "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" You can inscribe your own name in the place of Simon's and hear the Lord personally addressing you with the same ultimate question. He doesn't ask it of us simply once-protestations of love, we know, come all too easily to our lips. Jesus, by repeating his question, really wants us to reflect whether we truly mean what we say, for to love Jesus entails a great deal - are we willing to accept the consequences of our love by making changes in the way we live our lives, by accepting the mission of "feeding the Lord's lambs and sheep"? More radically still, are we willing to accept the Lord's final invitation - to follow him? After accompanying Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem to Calvery, and from there to the tomb, and today to the Sea of Tiberias, after all we have seen and heard and experienced of this one called Jesus, we are asked a question that demands an urgent answer.



Lord Jesus, with Peter we say: 'You know everything, You know that I love You.'

DAILY OFFERING
Eternal Father, I offer You everything I do this day; my thoughts, words, joys and sufferings. Grant that, vivified by the Holy Spirit and united to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, my life this day may be of service to You and to others. I also pray that all those preparing for marriage discover in Sacrament the source of Christ's grace for living a fithful and fruitful love. Amen.

PRAYING WITH THE CHURCH
INTENTION
That Christians may use literature, art and the mass-media to greater advantage in order to favour a culture which defends and promotes the values of the human person.
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