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On this Monday, our fifth day before our wedding, it is this gospel reading that Jordan and Kelly have chosen that will serve to inspire my prayer time today.
Kelly especially chose this reading because Jordan has accepted the call to serve his country in all the ways of sacrifice and love...
no less of a call for their marriage.

This Gospel reading will be offered by Father Oswalt, our family pastor from Oklahoma, whom Kelly and Jordan have asked to preside over their Nuptial Mass, here in Virginia.

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John 15: 12-16

Jesus said to his disciples: "This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. 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 kow what his master is doing, I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you."