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CHAPTER 41 “THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE” 329
with these bearers of divine gifts and to repair the link where
it has been broken.
This is especially necessary in the case of those who are in
any way alienated from the clergy for reasons, justified or
unjustified.
People who are seriously ill can be very reluctant to consult
a doctor. Often it takes one’s marriage partner, family or
friend to supply the necessary encouragement.
When spiritual health is at stake, much depends on the
quality of charity in those who are close to the one needing
help.
The formation of legionaries helps them to take the initiative
in mediating between priests and souls, and to do so with
gentle refine ment. This is an exquisite form of charity. They act
as agents of the Good Shepherd who calls them, through their
baptism to enter into his work.
“If I speak in the 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 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 if 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. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for
tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.”
(1 Cor 13:1-8)