May the measure of your living be love.

By Troy Kroening

10/26/2021 • View profile

Indeed, the measure of our living will be love. When we end this earthly journey, we will be faced with our failures to love, but also with the times we lived love. “If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.” – [1 Corinthians 13:3]

It is not just about doing what is right, but to do what is right in love. There is no possibility of us to do what is wrong in love. Indeed, much of our society is complicit in that. Tolerating evil is not love. Never has been and never will be. Whether it be sodomy, abortion, euthanasia, or any other evil, we cannot be complicit in the evil by tolerating it. Indeed when we tolerate evil, we are giving our approval to the evil.

Love is not always easy. Look at Jesus’ Passion. He agonized in the Garden, knowing what was going to happen and consenting to the Father’s Will. He was scourged, crowned with thorns, and carried His Cross burdened by our sins to His place of execution. That is living love. And if we are going to be deterred by loving because of the way people look at us, we have a lot to learn about love.

It is hard and John the Baptist lost his head despising evil and living love. May we be willing to live love regardless of the consequences. Only then can we gain everything.

Jesus, Your life was an act of God’s love for us. May Your Passion and Death strengthen us to live love in all things. Amen.

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Troy Kroening

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I am an adopted son of God through baptism, though still a great sinner. God has blessed me with a wonderful wife and 11 lovely children, 3 of which have gone to Heaven before their birth.

I love the Rosary and started sharing little Catholic reflections with others. My little reflections have helped deepen my faith and I hope they can help others as well. Though not always fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, I enjoy when He takes over and seeing what direction He takes the reflection.

Please say a prayer for me and I will continue to pray for all who read my little reflections, especially for them to be read as the Holy Spirit intends. St. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for the success of my little reflections and for all of Catholic365 and its readers.

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