These are excerpts from my homily for a funeral Mass I celebrated this morning.
We live in a world that praises what is efficient, what is practical, and what gives immediate results. Yet, there is nothing more inefficient, impractical or delayed in providing results than love.
True love asks for sacrifice.
True love asks for patience.
True love asks for time.
Sacrifice, patience and time, all things practiced by a reduced number of folks in our modern times, yet all essential for love.
In a way, there is nothing more impractical than falling in love – it makes you change your plans, it makes you think and consider others, it makes your passions and emotions soar, it can be a destabilizing force since when someone is in love, you never know what they may do next. Yet, love is what we live for, and God is love.
Love has been shown by all of you present today towards your aunt and uncle. It may not have been always practical to take care of them, but it was always loving. Things may not have been done in the most efficient or quickest way in order to include them, but it was always loving.
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