Jesus gives his life away through the bread and the wine but this is an applied religion Christianity first and foremost. Even the greatest ritual ever of the eucharist isn’t enough in itself. We have to do what it signifies. We have to act it out in our everyday lives. Love is the way that we prove that our faith means something and it matters. Jesus said that by your love the world will know that you are mine, the world will know that you are Christians. And so therefore, we reenact this every year to remember that we are to put our faith into practice. We’re to love not only the ones that are easy to love, but also the hard to love. We’re to love people at school, not just the popular ones, but the unpopular. We’re to love husbands and wives and daughters and sons, not because of what we want them to be and the ideal we have, but because of how they are. We’re to love our parishioners not because they’re ideal, but how they are. We’re to love our pastor not because he’s ideal and what we want him to be, but as he is. We’re to love our Bishop and our Vehapar for the same reason. And so therefore, let us put our love into practice, which is the only fruit of the tree of Christianity by which we know we are Christians and by which we begin in this life a great power and strength and Grace. It begins here and continues forever now and always and unto the ages of ages amen.