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If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

—1 Corinthians 13:1 (NRSV)

“Can you see what point [St. Paul] is making when he begins by exalting the gift, and then to what extent afterward he lowers and casts it down? For he doesn’t simply say, ‘I am nothing,’ but instead he says, ‘I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal,’ a senseless and inanimate thing. What does he mean by a clanging cymbal? He emits a sound, but at random and in vain, and for no good purpose. Beautiful speech that profits nothing also counts you as one giving impertinent trouble, an annoying and even wearisome kind of person. Do you see how a person who is void of love is similar to things that are inanimate and senseless?” —St. John Chrysostom

Show me how to love with Your love, today, Lord.