The Meaning of Friendship

What does it mean to be a friend? At the Last Supper, Jesus calls his disciples friends (John 15:15), and then gives them a new commandment: love one another as I have loved you. Sacrificial love, then, would seem to be the mark of true Christian friendship. A high standard, but one I hope will inspire us all today to be better friends to those we call friend.

Gospel of the day:  Luke 6: 6-11
“I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?”

Saint of the day: Saint Peter Claver

Quote of the day:  Aristotle
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

Poem of the day: Sonnet 104, William Shakespeare [Excerpt]

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey’d,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold
Have from the forests shook three summers’ pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn’d...

So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived:
For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred:
Ere you were born was beauty’s summer dead.