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Love is the One Essential Ingredient: Family Reflection Video

By: Father David Marcham on September 19th, 2018

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Love is the One Essential Ingredient: Family Reflection Video

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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

Father David S. Marcham is a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston and serves as Vice Postulator and Guild Director of the Cause for Canonization of Venerable Patrick Peyton. Before entering St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, he worked for eleven years as a physical therapist in Boston-area hospitals. Ordained in 2005, Father David was assigned to St. Mary Parish in Franklin, Massachusetts. His involvement in Father Peyton’s Cause began in 2007, when he assisted Father George Lucas, C.S.C., in advancing the Cause for Canonization. Appointed Vice Postulator in 2009, Father David oversees the progress of the Cause, directs the Guild, and promotes devotion to Father Peyton’s legacy of family prayer.