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If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.                If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.                If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.                Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with.               
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“Suffering accepted and borne together with others is joy”

 

Last summer, my family and I drove out to visit my godfather in the village where I was born. He is the husband of my deceased father’s sister, the last remaining member of that side of my family. My aunt is eighty-two years old and has been bedridden for three years. All this time my uncle has been looking after her. I was so impressed and charmed by what I saw that I just have to tell you about him.

My uncle is eighty-eight years old, enjoys robust health, and is full of good humor. He has an excellent memory and is a marvelous storyteller; and he has things to relate, for he has survived two world wars and a concentration camp. He says he has prayed all his life, especially in hard times. He always wears a holy medal — the childhood gift of his mother. He says prayer is raising oneself to God, directing one’s thanks and petitions to Him. He prays with my aunt, though praying the rosary and the litanies is becoming increasingly difficult for her, as she is losing her memory. It sounds awful, but my aunt is turning into a “vegetable.” But not for my uncle. With true devotion, he washes her, changes her napkins, dresses her, feeds her¬¬ — and always without any show of impatience. He has lived with her for sixty years and loves her still. Having watched them, I can state that the Sacrament of Matrimony is a gift, but it is also a pledge of caring for the other to the end of one’s days. 

I envy my aunt and would like to be treated like her one day. In our shallow, arid world such an uncle shines out like a diamond. I wish him good health. I am so proud of him.

 

Maria

 

 

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The above article was published with permission from Miłujcie się! in November 2010


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