Gracious Father, who created all things in goodness and joy, let love be the heart of our lives, that we would desire what is good for you and for those around us even as we desire it for ourselves. We ask this through Jesus, your son, who loved us to the end and now lives in perfect union with you and the Holy Spirit in glory forever. Amen.
‘He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”‘ – Matthew 22:37-39