[Mary Naeem]

H.H. Pope Tawadros II


He then presented the greatness of love in three fundamental principles:
1. Speech without love is noise: A person may speak eloquently or in foreign tongues, but if love is absent, the voice becomes like lifeless noise. This is the measure by which human speech is weighed. Example: the Pharisee and the tax collector.
2. Speech without love is emptiness: Knowledge and faith without love become a form of pride. Example: Satan.
3. Giving or service without love is void: Even the greatest sacrifice, if offered without love, does not benefit its giver. Example: Ananias and Sapphira.

Pope Tawadros advised that, as we begin a new Coptic year, each person should examine the shape of his love, for God measures the genuine love within the human heart.