Father Mike Schmitz

But love without truth is ineffectual.

Love without truth is syrup, essentially.

And neither of those actually does a lot of good.

Neither of those build up.

And what we're called to do is belong to the Lord and help in building up the people around us.

Anyways, that's John.

And the next time we see John, we're going to be hitting the book of Revelation, which is basically the day after tomorrow, which is kind of awesome.

But we also have the conclusion of the first letter of St.

Paul to Timothy.

Now, remember, writing to Timothy, Timothy's living in Ephesus.

And so the Ephesian Christians have got a number of things wrong.

And one of the things that they had gotten wrong is they started to have this, as the header of chapter four says, have a false asceticism.

They were denying certain things.

They were forbidding marriage.

They were enjoining abstinence from some foods.

And Paul is writing to Timothy saying, no, no, no, remember,

Marriage is good.

Marriage is a gift from God.

And also, remember, in the new covenant, you can eat all foods.

Whatever food you have, you can eat those foods.