"Jesus Son of David, have mercy on me!"
Today the traditional Catholic Church celebrates the Mass of Holy, Quinquagesima Sunday. Today's Mass lesson for traditional Catholics; The Gospel of this Sunday affords us a good occasion to ask the Master "Jesus" to give us the power of sight, to lift up our eyes from the perishables and the transitory.
Lesson from Epistle: 1 Corinthians: 13, 1-13. Brethren: If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal; and if I should have prophecy, and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up, is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth: beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never falleth away, whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away the things of a child. We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known. And now there remain, faith, hope, charity,
these three, but the greatest of these is charity.
Explanation: Saint Paul here teaches the Romans, and us in them, the necessity, the qualities, and the advantages of charity: The necessity, because all natural and supernatural gifts, all good works, virtues, and sacrifices, even martyrdom itself cannot save us if we have no charity. By charity only are we and our works pleasing to God. The qualities of charity, which are goodwill without envy, suspicion, perversity, or malice pure intention without self love, ambition, immodesty, or injustice ; untiring patience without hastiness; and, finally, humble submission to God, Who is all to him that possesses charity. The advantages of charity, in that it gives to good works their value, and that it never fails; for while all things else cease while faith passes into seeing, hope into possession, knowledge in part into knowledge of the whole charity is everlasting, and therefore the greatest of the three. "Faith”, says Saint Augustine, “lays the foundation of the house of God; hope builds up the walls; charity covers and completes it.”
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