This is the Sunday Sermon series for Quincuagesima Sunday in the traditional Latin Mass calendar.

The lesson comes from the Apostle Paul's first letter to the Corinthians chapter 13.

Brethren, if I should speak with the tongues of men and of angels but do not have charity,

I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling symbol. And if I have prophecy and know

all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains yet do not have

charity, I am nothing. And if I distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned

yet do not have charity, it profits me nothing.

Charity is patient, is kind.

Charity does not envy, is not pretentious, is not puffed up, is not ambitious, is not

self-seeking, is not provoked. Thinks no evil, does not rejoice over

wickedness, but rejoices with the truth, bears with all things, believes all things, hopes all

things, endures all things. Charity never fails. Whereas prophecies will disappear and tongues will cease and knowledge

will be destroyed, for we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when that which is perfect

has come, that which is imperfect, will be done away with. When as a child I spoke as a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought

as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away the things of a child. We see now through

a mirror, in an obscure manner, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I have been known.

So there abide, faith, hope, and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity.

A continuation of the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke, Chapter 18.

At that time, Jesus, taking to himself, the Twelve, said to them,

Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that have been written by the prophets

concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished.

For he will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and scourged and spit upon,

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