Meditation of May 16 "The new commandment"

The Lord Jesus affirms that he gives a new commandment to his disciples, that is, that they love one another: "I give you a new commandment: that you love one another" (Jn 13:34).
But did this commandment not already exist in the ancient law of the Lord, which prescribes: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself"? (Lv 19, 18). Why then does the Lord say new a commandment that appears to be so ancient? Is it a new commandment because it strips us of the old man to put on the new? Sure. He makes new whoever listens to him or rather whoever shows himself obedient to him. But the love that regenerates is not the purely human one. This is what the Lord distinguishes and qualifies with the words: "As I have loved you" (Jn 13:34).
This is the love that renews us, so that we become new men, heirs of the new covenant, singers of a new song. This love, dear brothers, renewed the ancient righteous, the patriarchs and the prophets, as it later renewed the apostles. This love now also renews all peoples, and of the whole human race, scattered on earth, forms a new people, the body of the new Bride of the only begotten Son of God, of whom we speak in the Song of Songs: Who is she who rises bright with whiteness? (cf. Ct 8: 5). Certainly shining with whiteness because it is renewed. From whom if not from the new commandment?
For this the members are attentive to each other; and if one member suffers, all suffer with him, and if one is honored, all rejoice with him (cf. 1 Cor 12: 25-26). They listen and put into practice what the Lord teaches: "I give you a new commandment: that you love one another" (Jn 13:34), but not how you love those who seduce, nor how you love men for the sole the fact that they are men. But how they love those who are gods and children of the Most High, to be brothers of his only Son. Loving each other with that love with which he himself loved men, his brothers, to be able to guide them where desire will be satisfied with goods (cf. Ps 102: 5).
The desire will be fully satisfied when God is all in all (cf. 1 Cor 15:28).
This is the love that the one who recommended gives us: "As I have loved you, so you also love one another" (Jn 13:34). To this end, therefore, he loved us, because we also love each other. He loved us and therefore he wanted us to be bound by mutual love, so that we were the Body of the supreme Head and limbs tightened by such a sweet bond.