In the Gospel Jesus speaks of the foundation and heart of his teaching and message. These are his parting words to his disciples before his passion and death. What is this message? Is it to be faithful in keeping the Ten Commandments and leading a 'good' life? Not exactly. Does he warn us to be sure to be in church every Sunday and to go to confession regularly? Not really. Does he tell us to use all our energies in loving God? Surprisingly, no! What he does tell us is to love other people - and to love them in the same way that he has loved us. This, he calls a "new" commandment. The Hebrew Testament told us to love God with our whole heart and soul and so on; and to love our neighbours as ourselves. Jesus has added a new element in telling us that the true test of discipleship is to love other people in the same way that He has loved us. And we might remember that these words lead the way to the "greatest possible love" that a person can show, that is, by letting go of one's very life for others. This Jesus will very dramatically portray in the terrible suffering and degradation which he will submit to out of love for us, out of love for ME. Am I ready to do that for others?