Scripture Reading
1 Corinthians 13:7
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Reflection
These four verbs — bears, believes, hopes, endures — are a portrait of love under pressure. The love Paul describes is not romantic sentiment but a durable, tested, active commitment. It does not collapse under the weight of disappointment or betrayal. To love this way requires something beyond human willpower; it requires the love of God working through us, bearing what we cannot bear alone.
Prayer for Today
Dear St. Jude,
Please return my love to me. This person was the answer to years of prayer for a loving partner to join my life. I always cherished the gift of this person and his love. I knew it was you, St. Jude who meant for us to be together by putting us in each
others path over and over until we finally understood.
Please don't let the difficult and painful circumstances that have just separated us be permanent. I had been praying faithfully and with devotion for all barriers between our being together to be removed. I am trying so hard to trust that these unexpected
circumstances now parting us are a part of that process and not an end. I am just scared and hurt.
Please hear my prayers, St. Jude. Please don't forget about me. Please help me. I am broken hearted and barely hanging on through the pain . I need your miraculous intercession, Blessed St. Jude. Please hear my prayers.
Please return my love to me. This person was the answer to years of prayer for a loving partner to join my life. I always cherished the gift of this person and his love. I knew it was you, St. Jude who meant for us to be together by putting us in each
others path over and over until we finally understood.
Please don't let the difficult and painful circumstances that have just separated us be permanent. I had been praying faithfully and with devotion for all barriers between our being together to be removed. I am trying so hard to trust that these unexpected
circumstances now parting us are a part of that process and not an end. I am just scared and hurt.
Please hear my prayers, St. Jude. Please don't forget about me. Please help me. I am broken hearted and barely hanging on through the pain . I need your miraculous intercession, Blessed St. Jude. Please hear my prayers.
Amen.