Italian Wedding Prayer
A reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (12:31-13:8).
If I do not have love, I gain nothing
But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
If I speak in tongues of mortals and of angels, but
do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all the mysteries
and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away
all my possessions, and I hand over my body so that I may
boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful
or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not
irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but
rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
This is the Word of The Lord. <><><><><><><> Italian Wedding Prayer |
