Let Us Love One Another, as Christ Jesus Has Loved Us

By Holy Baptism, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water (Heb. 10:22), we enter the holy place with Jesus. For Jesus is our Passover Lamb, who has been sacrificed for us. He reclines at table with us and feeds us with His own flesh and blood: the new and living way that He opened for us through the curtain (Heb. 10:20). In Christ, the Lord remembers us in mercy and remembers our sin no more; He forgives us all our iniquity (Jer. 31:34; Heb. 10:17). With such love, he loved His own who were in the world, and even loves us to the end (John 13:1). As He washes us and feeds us in love, let us love one another, just as He has loved us (John 13:34)

Source: LCMS Lectionary Summaries