As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
The Father's love for His coequal Son, unchanging, utterly pleased, willing to sacrifice all, is the measure of Christ's love for you. Not the degree, which is impossible, but the kind: deep, tender, moving Him to self-denial and blood. Remain in this love because it is unchanging, because it cost Him everything, and because on it alone hangs your happiness forever.
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The Father's love for the Son, the Son's love for us, and our love for God and neighbor are bound together inseparably and are the sweetest thing there is. This love proves itself by its effects, and Christ Himself is the perfect example of it, showing what both sides of this bond must do.
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They miss the point who ask how the Father eternally loved the Son in His own nature; Christ speaks of the Father's love toward us, made sure to us through Him as Head of the Church. Without Christ as Mediator you are lost in a labyrinth. Look to Him as the mirror in which God's fatherly love shines toward us all, for He is loved not for Himself alone but to unite us with Him to the Father.
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