Episode
Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter - Increasing Your Capacity to Love
- Podcast
- Catholic Daily Reflections
- Published
- May 7, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 492
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/catholic-daily-reflections-334651/episodes/friday-of-the-fifth-week-of-easter-increasing-your-capacity-to-love/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-daily-reflections-334651/friday-of-the-fifth-week-of-easter-increasing-your-capacity-to-love.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Read Online Increasing Your Capacity to Love “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.” John 15:13–15 Is it possible to know everything that Jesus knows? Certainly not. Yet, Jesus says in today’s Gospel, “I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.” Jesus Himself is the full revelation of the Father. Therefore, in Him we have been given perfect access to the life of God. Even though God has revealed everything to us, we are limited in our ability to receive it because we are finite creatures. Nonetheless, our imperfect natures do not limit what Jesus has told us from the Father. By analogy, consider water. When we are thirsty, we drink a glass of water. If we are very thirsty, we might drink several glasses. However, we are limited in how much water we can consume in one sitting. All that Jesus has revealed to us from the Father is like an infinite ocean of grace. He doesn’t offer us only one glass or even several. He offers us the ocean. Though He bestows it on us fully, we are limited in what we can receive by our finite nature and sin. The goal of the Christian life is not to take one “sip” or “glass” of grace. Our goal is to continuously increase our capacity for receptivity. The greatest of saints spent their lives doing so. The more grace they received, the greater their capacity, and the greater their capacity, the more they received. Saint Teresa of Ávila described this process as progressing through the “mansions” of the interior castle, with each step drawing the soul closer to union with Go…