In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses the new commandment Jesus gives to us in our Gospel Reading for the 5th Sunday of Easter. As Tony explains, what is new about this command isn’t so much the command itself as the qualifier Jesus gives that this command should be lived out as He lives it.
Endnotes:
John 10:27
Leviticus 19:17-18
Matthew 22:36-40
St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 33.2.
Matthew 5:43-48
Luke 23:34
John 13:1b
Mark 15:39
John 10:10
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.