Become Love

In Amoris Laetitia Pope Francis recognizes that people do not jump from initial conversion to perfection in a single step. Rather, the conversion of people’s minds and hearts to become more like Christ is a gradual lifelong process. This is the law, or principle, of gradualness.

Author Larry Kaufmann, CSsR, uses the insight of Pope Francis as the key to unlocking the Gospel of John. “Jesus as teacher exercises great patience with his followers,” writes Fr. Kaufmann, “yet he simultaneously challenges them to reach full potential.”

Fr. Kaufmann explores this principle in Jesus’ own teaching in the narratives on Nicodemus; the Samaritan Woman; the woman caught in adultery; the man born blind; and Mary Magdalene, Thomas and Peter after the resurrection.