Charity is not arrogant or rude: many of the temptations against charity can be summarized as attitudes of pride toward our neighbor. We can only serve others and concern ourselves about them to the extent that we forget about ourselves. Without humility no other virtue can exist and in particular there can be no love. In many cases, faults against charity have been preceded by faults involving vanity and pride, selfishness and a desire to outdo other people. The pride that prevents us from living charity can manifest itself in many ways.

Love is not ambitious: it does not insist on getting its own way. Charity does not ask anything for itself. It knows that it loves Jesus and others, and that is sufficient for it. Not only is it not ambitious with an overriding desire for gain, but it does not even insist on it’s own way; it seeks Christ.

Love does not rejoice at wrong: it does not compile lists of personal grievances. It endures all things. We should not only ask God to help us find excuses for the speck that we may see in our neighbor’s eye, but we should be sorry about the beam in our own eye, about the many times we have been unfaithful to our God.

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From Corinthian’s first Corinthians 13:8 to 13

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things. All things without exception. There is much we can give: faith, joy, a little word of praise, of affection. We should never expect anything in return. We should not be upset if people do not reciprocate. Love does not insist on having its own way, on those things that from a human point of you we might think are owed to us. If we do not seek anything for ourselves, we will discover that we have found Jesus.

Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. So faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Fr Francis Fernandez

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Jan 22, 2022, the 5th Mark of Charity, love is not arrogant, continuing his series on the Marks of Charity (1 Corinthians 13:5)

Notes:

Arrogance is having an exaggerated opinion of ourselves, being important in our own eyes.

Balloon analogy: Helium rises us to heaven vs our own CO2 that makes us sink the ground

High opinion of ourselves but lowers us to the ground spiritually, in God’s eyes

Franciscan spirituality based on purity on life and contemplation is a soaring eagle, from Thomas of Celano

Helium is like Holy spirit, lifts us up to heaven

Arrogance linked to hatred

Humility linked to Love

Paul afraid to visit Corinthians because there he might find the opposite traits from love as found in 1 Cor 12 including arrogance.

Arrogance puffs up but love builds up

Do not belittle those who are less knowledgeable than others even other Christians

Do not crush others by our knowledge

Virtues are important but if combined with viciousness then it is bad

Knowledge sometimes runs ahead of charity

Even faith without love is bad  1 Cor 13:2

Love fosters unity and community, builds bridges not burns them

Ask Our lady to give us humility and love.

More from this series, Marks of Charity:
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On AirMaria: http://dev.airmaria.com/tag/marks-of-charity/

Marks of Charity are from First Corinthians Chapt 13 – https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1corinthians/13

Ave Maria!

Mass: Saturday 2nd Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/012222.cfm
1st: 2sa 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27
Resp: psa 80:2-3, 5-7
Gsp: mar 3:20-21

More on the Readings: http://dev.airmaria.com/r?m=1576

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