There’s a lot of urgency in that single word today.
Epiphany | Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany (Year C)
Jeremiah 1:4-10 (Psalm 71:1-6); 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30
How would Norman Rockwell have painted Jesus' homecoming to Nazareth?
The apostle reminds us that Christian life—married or not—isn't about personal fulfillment.
Self-realization is possible only in relation to a reality beyond the self.
In 1947, Langston Hughes published the poem "Luck." It could be read as an ode to love. It could be read at weddings along with 1 Corinthians 13, the biblical ode to love. But that would miss the point of both the poem and the scripture.
The writer of Luke may be challenging his readers to accept even those whom the oppressed might reject, but Paul reminds us to act with love in all things.