For Your Weekend: He First Loved Us

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 14:15–21

From a young age, we are shown that the more excellent one’s performance is, the higher the reward. In third grade, if you are the first to memorize your times tables, you receive a prize. In middle school and high school, if you have a certain number of A’s and B’s, you are placed on the honor roll (or even high honors), and if you’re lucky enough, your parents will proudly slap a “my child is an honor student” sticker on the back of their car...