“When you illuminate an object, it begins to shine,
but otherwise remains unchanged. The expression on the Holy Face,
in contrast, changes depending on how the light hits it.
It is a great mystery.”
(Father Carmine Cucinelli, Rector of the Basilica of the Holy Face)
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you:
continue ye in my love.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love;
even as I have kept my Father’s commandments,
and abide in his love.
(John 15:9-10)
He shall glorify me:
for he shall receive of mine,
and shall shew it unto you.
(John 16:14)
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
that ye shall weep and lament,
but the world shall rejoice:
and ye shall be sorrowful,
but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
(John 16:20)
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you,
ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Herein is my Father glorified,
that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
(John 15:7)
A little while, and ye shall not see me:
and again a little while,
and ye shall see me.
(John 16:16)
But that the world may know
that I love the Father;
and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.
(John 14:31)
But when the Comforter is come,
whom I will send unto you from the Father,
even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father,
he shall testify of me.
(John 15:26-27)
At that day ye shall know
that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me:
and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father,
and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
(John 14:20-21)
If I had not done among them the works which
none other man did, they had not had sin:
but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
But this cometh to pass, that the word might
be fulfilled that is written in their law.
They hated me without a cause. (John 15:24-25)
All things that the Father hath are mine:
therefore said I,
that he shall take of mine,
and shall shew it to you.
(John 16:15)
If ye were of the world,
the world would love his own:
but because ye are not of the world,
but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.
(John 15:19)
Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ye are my friends, if ye do
whatsover I command you.
(John 15:13-14)