Photo was taken at Tooreenbawn, Millstreet, Co.Cork (Irl)

Beautiful sunshine made yesterday a great day to be outdoors. This wild meadow flower was particularly eye catching, with lovely meadow grass around it creating a lovely backdrop.

Thought on Sunday – May – 13/05/2012

The following reflection is by Triona Doherty called ‘All you need is love’

‘Love? Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendoured thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love.’

In an attempt to express the depth of his love, the character Christian from the film Moulin Rouge pulls together the lyrics of some of the most famous love songs of recent decades. Since time began, poetry, prose and song have attempted to put into words the great mystery that is love. ‘At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet,’ the philosopher Plato put it.
Today’s Gospel reading offers one of the most eloquent passages on love in the Gospels. It reveals the vision of Jesus for his followers and explains how we should treat one another. We are to take a leaf out of Jesus’ book; we are to love each other with the same love he showed during his time on earth, that great love which culminated in his ‘laying down his life for his friends’.

Reflecting on this love, author Daniel O’Leary suggests that, sometimes, ‘we find it so hard to accept the revelation that it is God’s delight to be worshipped in the way we touch and look at each other, in the way we listen and talk to each other, in the way we forgive and promise to start all over again’. It is in the way we love one another, the way we forgive and ‘lay down our lives’ for one another, that we experience the life and love of Jesus.