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Love is....

This Guadete Sunday, December 13th, six days before our wedding,
we spent with Jordan in anticipation of the abundantly blessed week that we all face as our families begin to arrive on Wednesday.
I chose this Sacred Heart photo to post with this second reading that Jordan and Kelly have chosen to be read by my parents during their Nuptial Mass on Saturday.
Almost twenty-five years ago, my own Aunt Wyn and Uncle Zoe read this at our wedding.
I still remember when it was read back then, because my Aunt was so filled with emotion
that she paused for a moment. She gave us the gift of reading from her heart.

May Jordan and Kelly find the richest rewards as they grow in their understanding together
of the greatest of all gifts, love.

Even still today, each time this divine reading comes my way,
I am challenged to discovery in my own deeds of all that love is not.

As I begin the tasks of a hostess, I carry this reading within my heart as a prayer of petition
and offering to the Lord.
May I be granted the grace to desire the truest expressions of unfailing love.

A reading from the first Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians
12:31-13:8

Brothers 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 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 ptient, love is kind. It is not jealous, 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 wrongdoing but rejoices iwth the truth. It bears all things, believes all tings, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.