Love is the hallmark of Christian life, Pope tells Sunday audience
February 01, 2010
At his midday audience on Sunday, February 1, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of St. Paul's "hymn to charity," the in First Letter to the Corinthians, as "one of the most beautiful passages of the New Testament, and of the entire Bible."
"In the end, when we find ourselves face to face with God, all other gifts will fail and all that will be left to last for eternity is love," the Pope said, "because God is love and we will be like unto Him, in perfect communion with Him." For that reason, he continued, "charity is the distinctive mark of Christians."
The saints of the Church show an astonishing diversity of personal traits, the Pope added. But they are alike insofar as "the life of each one of them is a hymn to charity, a living canticle to the love of God."
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