The Beautiful meaning of LoVe
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007· Love is not boastful
· Love is not arrogant
· Love is not proud
· Love is not rude
· Love is not bragging about oneself
· Love is not being irritable
· Love is not being bitter
· Love is not being aggressive
· Love is not doing heroic acts
· Love is not doing extraordinary acts
· Love is not speaking in tongues
· Love is not prophesying
· Love is not about knowing all mysteries & all science
· Love is not even having extraordinary faith
· Love is not even giving all one’s goods to the poor
· Love is not even being martyred
· Love is not being jealous
· Love is not searching for the evil in others
· Love is not rejoicing in injustice
· Love is not exaggerating one’s own qualities
· Love is doing nothing that can bruise others
· Love does not insist on its own way
· Love does not gossip
BUT. . .but. . .
· Love is growth in goodness
- Love is growth in generosity
- Love is growth in fidelity
- Love is growth in tenderness
- Love is growth in self-control
- Love bears all things
- Love believes all things
- Love hopes all things
- Love endures all things
- Love is communion, communion with God and with our brothers and sisters
- Love is manifested in all the little things of life that build community
· Love is the opposite of all our tendencies to division—hatred, quarrelling, jealousy, rage, disputes, dissension, schism.







