Where there is charity, love, there also is God. I think there is no better way of concluding this morning s remarks than by reading again what we heard earlier. Saint Paul begins by saying If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I have faith, so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
These are the words of that great Apostle who loved Jesus, it has been said, with an almost savage love. This must be our ideal. This love must characterize each of us individually. And we must not be tricked into thinking we can attain to God in any other way.