Today's second reading is one of my favorites. Every time I read or hear it, I get something new out of it. Every time I read or hear it, I realize that it is just as relevant today as it was when it was written. It helps to clarify just what true, authentic love is and how it can be shown. I think this is a clarification that is desperately needed in our current times.
God bless...
1 Cor 13: 1-13
1If I speak in human and angelic
tongues* but
do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.a2And if I have the gift of
prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so
as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.b3If I give away everything I
own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I
gain nothing.c
4* Love
is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not
inflated,d5it is not rude, it does not
seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,e6it does not rejoice over
wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.7It bears
all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.f
8* Love
never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if
tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.9For we know partially and we
prophesy partially,10but when the perfect comes, the
partial will pass away.11When I was a child, I used to
talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I
put aside childish things.12At present we see indistinctly,
as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I
shall know fully, as I am fully known.g13* So
faith, hope, love remain, these three;h but
the greatest of these is love.
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