But now, I ask you,
not as though I were writing a new commandment
but the one we have had from the beginning:
let us love one another.
(2 Jn 1:5)
Sometimes it must seem like a broken record, but “let us love one another” has to be said over and over again. It’s the problem with Christian community as our professor in seminary once said. She said, “Christian community never fully arrives, you always have to build it . . . it’s a lot like that old Paul Simon song which says, ‘You know the nearer your destination/The more you're slip slidin' away.’” Today is the feast of Mother Cabrini, an Italian lady who immigrated to the United States, founded a religious community to care for immigrants, became a citizen, and is the first canonized saint from the United States.
