"I Have Called You Friends"

2026-2027 Formation Year Theme

John 15:15

I Have Called You Friends

“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 know 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. This I command you: love one another.”

2026 - 2027 Ministry Year

Introducing the Theme

New Text

A Thematic Thread

Why a Theme?

At Stella Maris, we are implementing a theme for the ministry year (2026–2027). The theme will serve as a thematic thread running through our programming this year and bring to life our mission of encountering Jesus and helping others do the same. It aims to be memorable and inspiring, and a source of a kind of enduring Lectio Divina throughout the year.

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