Third Sunday of Easter

John 21:1-19 is so vividly full of Christ's tenderness and love toward Peter that we can expect the Fathers to resonate with an uncommon depth. Here is St. Augustine:

Let us love therefore, not ourselves, but Him, and in feeding His sheep, seek not our own, but the things which are His. For whoever loves himself, not God, loves not himself. Man, who cannot live of himself, must die by loving himself; and he cannot love himself, who loves himself to his own destruction. Whereas when He by Whom we live is loved, we love ourselves the more.

And with typical (though unfortunately much overlooked) fervor for the rule of St. Peter, St. John Chrysostom says:

That which most of all attracts the Divine love is care and love for our neighbor. Our Lord passing by the rest, addresses this command to Peter: he being the chief of the Apostles, the mouth of the disciples, and head of the college. Our Lord remembers no more his sin in denying Him, or brings that as a charge against him, but commits to him at once the superintendence over his brethren. If you love Me, have rule over your brethren, show forth that love which you have evidenced throughout, and that life which you said you would lay down for Me, lay down for the sheep.

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