{"id":1368,"date":"2013-04-12T01:22:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T15:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1368"},"modified":"2013-04-12T01:24:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T15:24:34","slug":"tretia-velkonocna-nedela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/tretia-velkonocna-nedela\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Sunday of Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Readings: Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 or 21:1-14 (48)<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jesus said to Simon Peter, \u2018Do you love me . . . ?\u2019 Simon Peter answered him, \u2018Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.\u2019 Jesus said to him, \u2018Feed my lambs.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why did Jesus ask Peter the same question three times? I think he wanted Peter to understand &#8212; and he wanted you and me to understand &#8212; that it isn&#8217;t enough just to say, &#8220;I love you.&#8221; We must show our love for Jesus by showing our love for one another and caring for one another. Do you love Jesus?<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was not trying to make Saint Peter squirm when after his Resurrection he asked his apostle three times, \u201cDo you love me?\u201d It was less an undoing of Peter\u2019s denial and more a response to Peter\u2019s own need to say the words and to hear himself say what he believed.<\/p>\n<p>In the musical Fiddler on the Roof Tevye asks his wife, \u201cGolda, do you love me?\u201d She answers with a litany of all the chores she does for him and the family, but Tevye keeps asking until she finally admits, \u201cI suppose I do,\u201d and with both of these replies Tevye is satisfied. Words and deeds of love\u2014both are essential. Examine your own words and deeds\u2014do they measure up? Do you really love me?<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Jesus, help us to show our love for you by loving and caring for one another.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readings: Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 or 21:1-14 (48) Jesus said to Simon Peter, \u2018Do you love me . . . ?\u2019 Simon Peter answered him, \u2018Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.\u2019 Jesus said to him, \u2018Feed my lambs.\u2019 Why did Jesus ask Peter the same question three times? I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}