{"id":6530,"date":"2022-01-29T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeterstoronto.ca\/main\/?p=6530"},"modified":"2022-02-24T11:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:32:15","slug":"now-faith-hope-and-love-abide-these-three-and-the-greatest-of-these-is-love-1-corinthians-1313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeterstoronto.ca\/main\/2022\/01\/29\/now-faith-hope-and-love-abide-these-three-and-the-greatest-of-these-is-love-1-corinthians-1313\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNow faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love\u201d (1 Corinthians 13:13)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. (1 Corinthians 13: 4-8)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"DecorativeIf you have been to a wedding lately, it is very likely that you heard the second reading from the First Letter to the Corinthians that we heard proclaimed this Sunday. In fact, I think this would be the second reading that has been used at about ninety percent of the weddings that I have ever celebrated. So often is this reading used at weddings, that I think for many people they may assume that it is the love between a couple that St. Paul is writing about. For that reason, I thought it would be good to speak this week about St. Paul\u2019s First Letter to the Corinthians and the place that this passage plays within it.<\/p>\n

Some of the earliest material that was written in the New Testament comes from St. Paul. While the Apostles were alive, they recounted the Gospel stories about Jesus in person. It was only as they realized that they would not live to see the second coming of Christ that they decided they should write the Gospels to hand the faith on to future generations. St. Paul on the other hand, often wrote to the communities that he had founded to encourage them after his departure as they struggled to live the Gospel that he had shared with them. One of the early communities that Paul visited was Corinth. It is thought that he visited this city in the early 50\u2019s. Once he had shared the Gospel with them orally, he moved on to preach it in other locations and to found other Churches. As he is on his missionary journey he hears from others about problems that have developed in Corinth and he writes to them to remind them of some of the basics of the faith which ought to keep them united in love serving the Lord.<\/p>\n

Some of the problems which the Church in Corinth is struggling with are not unlike those which other communities have struggled with over time. Many of the Christians in Corinth are divided based on the different persons from whom they have heard the Gospel. Some people claim to be disciples of Apollos, some of St. Peter and others of Paul. Still others who claimed to be followers of Christ have taken up immoral activities that are contrary to the faith. Paul must even remind the community about the nature of the Eucharistic celebration. Because many are celebrating it in ways that bring division to the community, Paul reminds them that the Eucharist is to be celebrated as passed on by Christ in order to build the community up as one Body that continues the mission of the Lord. In fact, Paul reminds the members of the Church in Corinth, they are all called to be members of Christ\u2019s one body the Church, each with a different function and mission in the one Church. This was the beautiful reading that we heard last weekend, in which we were reminded that we are all members of one body of the Church through baptism. As members, we all have an essential and necessary place and vocation; just as in the body, the hand, ear, eye, mouth and heart are all necessary for the proper functioning of the body. It is after this reminder that all have a place in the body that this reading from the thirteenth chapter of Paul\u2019s First Letter to the Corinthians has its place. Love is to be that gift which animates and holds together all the members of the Church. No matter what the function of the individual member within the Church, he or she is to exercise their role in love. Paul concludes the letter by reminding the members of the Church in Corinth of the reason why love is to animate their response to God. It is because of Christ\u2019s sacrifice and His resurrection, and all that He has done for us, that we are to respond to Him and one another in love. As Paul writes so powerfully, if Christ had not been raised then our faith is in vain. Perhaps the best summary of all this is from another New Testament writer, St. John, who wrote that we are called to love because God has loved us first (1 John 4:19-21).<\/p>\n

Paul writes eloquently about the motivating factor for responding to God as being grounded in all that God has done for us. He calls those reading his letter to reflect upon the Resurrection and the gift of eternal life that Christ won for all humanity as the reason for responding in love. To the community at Corinth, that has grown lukewarm to the message, he attempts to draw them back to the message of the Gospel as the source of their life within the Church. This is why an important part of his letter is what He writes about the Eucharist. It is in the Eucharist that the community recalls all that Christ has done for them in His resurrection, and it is through the Eucharist that they are built up into the one Body of Christ. Through the Eucharist, they recall God\u2019s love for them and are built up to take their mission within the one Body of Christ in which they live their different vocations. The Eucharist makes tangible God\u2019s love for the members of the community and calls them to live in it as members of Christ\u2019s Body the Church.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday, the Church celebrated \u201cWord of God Sunday.\u201d As we did so, we reflected upon how essential the Scriptures are in revealing the light of Christ\u2019s love to us. Just as we hear God\u2019s love spoken of in the Scripture, the Eucharist is a tangible expression of this love made present for us at each Mass. In the Eucharist, Jesus puts flesh to His Word. He is not just someone who says \u201cI love you\u201d and does nothing to show that love. Jesus makes real His love in the Eucharist and reminds us of why we are called to respond in love each time we celebrate the Eucharist.<\/p>\n

One of the great dangers of the Christian life is one that is presented today in our Gospel reading from Luke. As He worships in the synagogue of His home town, Jesus tells the people that He is the long-awaited Messiah who will fulfill the expectations spoken of in the Book of the Prophet Isaiah. Despite them being impressed with the way He preaches and with His knowledge, the men and women with whom He grew up are so familiar with Jesus that He is not able to do any great works or miracles in their midst. For those of us who have been Catholic our whole lives, we can fall into the same trap. Like the people of Corinth, who have forgotten the fundamentals of their faith, we too can forget that in the Eucharist we are to encounter the living Christ in our midst, and to respond in love for the great salvation that He has won for us by His life, death and resurrection. Every Eucharist is intended to contain a celebration of the Easter mysteries that won for each of us eternal life and put an end to death. The Eucharist contains Christ and His salvation given to us out of love. This is the reason that we are called to love. This why we are sent into the world to make Christ present after each Eucharistic celebration.<\/p>\n

In some ways, it is for this reason that the reading that we heard today from the First Letter to the Corinthians does have a connection to the sacrament of marriage. The Church teaches that Christian marriage is a kind of reflection of the marriage between Christ and His Church. As Christ gave His life for the Church, so the Christian spouses are to give their lives to one another. Because Christ and His love are eternal, all love that is expressed by the Christian who has been given eternal life, is to be modeled and based on Christ\u2019s eternal love. As it is important for couples to remember why they fell in love, and be strengthened by this in trials and difficulties, so it is important for all of us to remember what Christ has done for us as we question how and why we are to respond to Christ\u2019s call and the demands of our vocations\u2014whether that be a vocation to the single life, marriage, religious life or the priesthood. As Christians, all that we do must be done out of an awareness of God\u2019s love for us so that we too might act in love.<\/p>\n

The simplest way to summarize all this might be to just say we should take time every day to recall all that God has done for us and be aware of His many blessings in our lives. The Christian life is to be lived as a thankful response to God\u2019s great love for us. An example of one who lived her life this way is St. Theresa of Lisieux. Whenever I mention her, I like to remind people that there is a relic from her in our altar. Because her response to the passage that we read today, from the thirteenth chapter of Paul\u2019s First Letter to the Corinthians, is so perfect, I would like to conclude this reflection by quoting it:<\/p>\n

Finally, I have found peace. Regarding the mystical body of the Church, I had not seen myself as one of the members described by St. Paul, or rather I did not wish to see myself in the whole. Charity gave me the key to my vocation. I understood that if the Church had a body, composed of different members, all necessary and noble, the Church must have a heart, and that this heart was burning with love. I understand that love alone moves the members of the Church, that if love were to die out, the apostles would not proclaim the Gospel, the martyrs would refuse to shed their blood. I understood that love encompassed all vocations, that love was all, that it embraced all times and places; in a word, that it was eternal.<\/p>\n

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Then, in the excess of my delirious joy, I cried out: \u201cO Jesus, my love; I have finally found my vocation, and it is love.<\/p>\n

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Yes, I have found my place in the Church, and this place, O my God, you have given me. In the heart of the Church, my Mother, I will be love; and thus I will be all, thus my dream will come true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

May we all be aware of God\u2019s eternal love for us so that it may move us to strive to love Him and our neighbour with that one gift of love, which lasts for all eternity.<\/p>\n

Fr. Michael McGourty
\nPastor, St. Peter\u2019s Parish\u2014Toronto.<\/p>\n

This reflection based upon the readings for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time\u2014Year C: Jeremiah 1: 4-5; 17-19; Psalm 71; 1 Cor. 12:31-13:13; and Luke 4: 21-40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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