Love is the One Essential Ingredient: Family Reflection Video

By: Father David Marcham on September 19th, 2018

Love is the One Essential Ingredient: Family Reflection Video

Faith without love is incomplete…

There is no end to the ways God can move our hearts; witnessing kindness, hearing a song, walking in nature, and so much more. The one thing flowing through all these is our focus today, and that is love.

Love is what makes anything we do meaningful. St. Paul even says “if we speak in angelic tones, but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or clashing cymbal.” If a person, no matter how spiritual, doesn’t have the love of God in their heart, then what they say doesn’t ring true.

Many of you may know from wedding masses the “love is patient, love is kind…love never fails” saying. Love is important in fueling all we do, and we must be living it starting in our famiies.

What do you do to spread love each and every day? How does it impact your family?

We pray for love to reach and take root around the world today.

For additional reading: Today’s Readings, St. Januarius, St. Paul

About Father David Marcham

Reverend David S. Marcham is the Vice Postulator for the Cause of Venerable Patrick Peyton, and Director of the Father Peyton Guild, whose members pray for Father Peyton’s beatification and spread his message of the importance of Family Prayer. Prior to becoming a seminarian, Father David was a physical therapist and clinical instructor, serving hospital inpatients and outpatients throughout the greater Boston area for eleven years. In 1998 he heard the call to priesthood and was ordained in the Archdiocese of Boston in 2005. Father David grew up in Quincy, MA, and has fond memories of playing soccer, tennis and running track. You’re never without a friend when Father David is around, as he welcomes everyone into his circle with a smile on his face!