The Greatest Gift
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Corinthians 13:1-2: 1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but
have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And
though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all
knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but
have not love, I am nothing.
In the book called “Catholicism - A
Journey To The Heart Of The Faith” by Father Robert Barron, there is a chapter
called The Indispensable Men. This chapter is about Saints Peter and Paul and
how they were so very instrumental in the foundation of our Catholic Faith and
of all Christian Faiths.
The quote from 1 Corinthians above is
frequently used in wedding ceremonies, and I have heard it hundreds of times.
Father Barron really made it hit home to me today as I read this chapter. To
quote the author, “As I have said earlier, love is not primarily a feeling or
emotion (although love can be accompanied by feelings and emotions); it is
willing the good of other as other. When we love, we escape the black hole of
our own clinging egotism and live for someone else; to love is to leap
ecstatically out of self.”
Further down the page, St. Paul
concludes his observation with “Love never fails.” 1 Corinthians 13:8. Father Barron goes on to
say “ In heaven, when we are sharing the divine life, even faith will end, for
we will see and no longer merely believe; hope will end, for our deepest
longing will have been realized. But love will endure, because heaven is love.
Heaven is a state of being in which everything that is not love has been burned
away. And that is why “faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest
of these is love.” 1 Corinthian 13:13.
Pretty deep stuff, but isn’t that
wonderful. It all makes sense to me now better than ever before. God Bless and
make it a great day!
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