10^th Sunday after Pentecost:

 

Love always …perseveres.

(First Corinthians 13:7)

 Ordinary days, between Easter Resurrection and the big Resurrection that awaits us, requires perseverance: “In the Spirit, pray for the perseverance of all the saints” (Eph 6:18). Perseverance assumes that life between Easter and the Last Trumpet Sound will have its troubles. We do not move from triumph to triumph. To see us through we need the unseen prompting of the Holy Spirit, prayers and supplications, and the assurance “that the one who began a good work among us will bring it to completion” (Phil 1:6).

 Plus, the Apostle insist, perseverance is the mark of authentic love. “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. For now; faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love” (1Cor 13).