Gospel for May 13, 2012

John 15:9-17

As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. 
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. 
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. 
No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you. 
I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. 
This I command you: love one another.