Saturday, February 23rd
St. Polycarp
Apocalypse 2:8-11. John 15:18-21

The life given you at your birth is transformed into life eternal through My death and risen life and your self-giving in Our love: I speak to all faithful in Our love and obedient in the Father’s will and loving purpose.

The world is challenged by Our love, the sons and daughters of the Father’s love called to life in Him in denial of the self and offering all they have and all they are to Him in and through My indwelling and the light and guiding of our Holy Spirit.

In My incarnate life the Father’s will was both challenge and inspiration, and so it is for all who are in Me and I in them. The cost was rejection, suffering and cruel death; the reward the honouring of My faithfulness in His eternal Presence and the salvation of the faithful in Our love and progress in the way to the fulness of the Father’s Presence in eternity.

I am The Way, The Truth, The Life. Follow in faith and love and trust and absolute self-giving.