Acts 25:13-21 / John 21:15-19
Usually people would associate the shape of love with the shape of a heart.
Oh yes, when we want to express love between persons and people, we would put the shape of hearts all over, whether one heart or many hearts.
But from the perspective of faith, we know what the shape of love is - it is the shape of the Cross.
It was on the Cross that we see what unconditional love is, what sacrificial love and what divine love is.
In the gospel, when Jesus asked Peter "Do you love me" three times, it was certainly not lovey-dovey hearts all over that question.
For that three times that Peter denied Jesus, now Jesus is asking Peter three time if he loved Him.
And for the three times that Peter said to Jesus, "Yes Lord, you know I love you", the shape of the cross was slowly beginning to emerge as Jesus indicated the kind of death by which Peter would give glory to God.
Yes, the shape of love is the cross, yet that love comes from the Sacred Heart.
The shape of love is also the heart as we offer our devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
In the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we see love and we see also the Cross.
Let us embrace the Heart of Jesus, and carry our cross and be His loving disciples.