Daily Love
I am not a fan of Pope Francis. But I did come across a phrase of his this week that I like. It’s in his encyclical Amoris Laetitia and is the heading to a section on love in marriage which includes an exegesis of 1 Corinthians 13. The phrase is “Our Daily Love”. He goes on talk about each of the individual adjectives used by the Apostle Paul to describe what love really is - not only a feeling but a commitment to seek the common good of the other.
This is a salutary reminder to me in married life with small children. Most days are exhausting and sometimes the sense of fatigue I have by the end of them resembles nausea. When I feel tired I am all the more tempted to be rude, impatient, short, selfish. It is much easier to be holy when I am well rested. But this is what love is in this context - our daily love is not a spectacular event that garners attention and changes the world. It is the almost entirely hidden commitment to our family, to our children, to their future and…
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