The sign of Christ’s disciples
Love is the sign that we are truly the Lord’s disciples. Christ is our model of how to love, and what the quality of love is. An essential dimension of love is loving each other, loving the people around us, our neighbour. Love is the great motivation in God, because God is love. On the Cross, that love is shown at its most radical.

The New Commandment: Love one another
Christ asks us to love each other in the way that he loves us (see John 13,34-35). In his first Encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI speaks about two kinds of love: love (eros) as the natural love between people. Eros is “a need” love. Meanwhile, there is another type of love, agape, selfless love, expecting nothing in return. Both types of love need each other and support each other.