Can we remind each other of the great love passage, which is
read at so many marriages?
If one is not living in these virtues, one must ask one’s
self why.
These virtues have been given to all baptized Christians and
nurtured in the sacraments of the Catholic Church.
“Love is patient and
kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does
not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not
rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes
all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” I Corinthians 13:4-7 RSV
This passage could be a weekly examination of conscience for
one.
The opposites of the list of virtues are all sins: let me
rewrite the passage.
“Unlove is impatient
and harsh; unlove is jealous and boastful; unlove is arrogant and rude. Unlove
insists on its own way; unlove is irritable and resentful; unlove takes joy in
wrong and does not rejoice in right; Unlove walks away from suffering, doubts
all things, despairs of all things, and gives up.”
One must love in order to join Christ and His saints in
heaven.
“Make love your aim…”
I Cor. 14:1
