Our Gospel proclamation today comes at the conclusion of John's Gospel - and a more dramatic conclusion would be hard to imagine. For in reality, the question that Jesus addresses to Peter is also being directed to each of us: "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" You can inscribe your own name in the place of Simon's and hear the Lord personally addressing you with the same ultimate question. He doesn't ask it of us simply once-protestations of love, we know, come all too easily to our lips. Jesus, by repeating his question, really wants us to reflect whether we truly mean what we say, for to love Jesus entails a great deal - are we willing to accept the consequences of our love by making changes in the way we live our lives, by accepting the mission of "feeding the Lord's lambs and sheep"? More radically still, are we willing to accept the Lord's final invitation - to follow him? After accompanying Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem to Calvery, and from there to the tomb, and today to the Sea of Tiberias, after all we have seen and heard and experienced of this one called Jesus, we are asked a question that demands an urgent answer.