The so-called Apostle of Love, John the Theologian, is celebrated twice each year: once, in May, in the days and weeks after the Pascha of the Lord, and now in September, shortly after the feast of the Exaltation. This reminds us that true love is crucified: it does not seek its own, but only the truest good of the other. We know God’s love through his Cross; indeed, Christ, the hypostatic Love of God, was crucified for our sake. Through the prayers of the holy apostle John the Theologian, may we always stand in worship beside the Cross of the Lord, adoring our crucified Love, and may we too attain to some measure of that love, a pure love that lays down its very life for the sake of the other.
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