Today's readings at Mass were so beautiful (well, all of Scripture is beautiful! <3 ) I was particularly drawn to today's Second Reading about love. It's a reading we've probably all heard dozens of times if not more, and its familiarity can make it easy to gloss over and not really pay full attention. (I know I do that far too often!) This reading caught my attention though, partly because it has been a significant influence on my discernment in recent weeks. As I listened to this reading being proclaimed at Mass this morning, the line that stood out to me most was that "love rejoices with the truth," (1 Cor 13:6) because I saw this as confirmation of my previous insights regarding my discernment.
So I want to ask whoever's reading this....what part of this reading strikes you the most? When you read it, what part of it touches your heart? If you'd like, feel free to share in the comments. :)
1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13Brothers and sisters:Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts.But I shall show you a still more excellent way.
If I speak in human and angelic tongues,but do not have love,I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.And 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.If 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.
Love is patient, love is kind.It is not jealous, it is not pompous,It is not inflated, it is not rude,it does not seek its own interests,it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,it does not rejoice over wrongdoingbut rejoices with the truth.It bears all things, believes all things,hopes all things, endures all things.
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.For we know partially and we prophesy partially,but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.When 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.At 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.So faith, hope, love remain, these three;but the greatest of these is love.
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