LOVE LABORS - CHAPTER AND VERSE

 

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision

nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love.  Galatians 5:6

 

 

 

 

Love abides. – 1 Corinthians 13:13

 

Love abounds. – Joel 2:12:14

 

Love bears. – 1 Corinthians 4:7

 

Love believes. – 1 Corinthians 4:7

 

Love binds. – Romans 8:37-39

 

Love builds. -  Ephesians 4:16

 

Love blesses. – Matthew 5:44

 

Love chastises. – Revelation 3:19

 

Love choses. -  Deuteronomy 10:15

 

Love continues. – 1 Corinthians 8

 

Love controls. – 2 Corinthians 5:14

 

Love disciplines. – Proverbs 3:11-12

 

Love draws. – Jeremiah 3:13

 

Love edifies. – 1 Corinthians 8:1

 

Love endures. -  1 Corinthians 4:7

 

Love forbears. – Ephesians 4:2

 

Love forgives. – Luke 7:36-50

 

Love fulfills. – Romans 13:8-10

 

Love grounds. – Ephesians 3:17-18

 

Love hallows. –  Ephesians 1:14

 

Love hopes. – 1 Corinthians 4:7

 

Love lights. – 1 John 2:9-11

 

Love lives. -  1 John 4:16

 

Love perfects. -  1 John 14:17

 

Love perseveres. – James 1:12

 

Love persists. – Psalm 85:7

 

Love prays. – Matthew 5:44

 

Love promises. –  Psalm 77:8

 

Love rebukes. –  Revelation 3:19

 

Love recalls. – Song of Songs 1:2-3

 

Love remains. – John 15:7-12

 

Love renews. – Lamentations 3:22-23

 

Love reproves. – Hebrews 12:5-7

 

Love reveals. – John 18:21

 

Love sacrifices. – 1 John 4:7-10

 

Love sanctifies. – Ephesians 5:25-26

 

Love saves. – Psalm 31-6

 

Love summons. – Hosea 11:1

 

Love surpasses. – Ephesians 3:18-19

 

Love trusts. – Psalm 143:8

 

Love walks. – Ephesians 5:2

 

Love works. – Galatians 5:6

 

Love unities. – Colossians 2:2

 

Love loves. – Jeremiah 31:3

 

God is love. – 1 John 4:7-8

Annabelle of Anchony Burdens of the Mind Book Review

This Young Adult novel placed in Medieval Times was written by Ruth Apollonia, a practicing Catholic, and RCIA Director of her local parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau. The novel is the Winner of the 2013 Catholic Arts and Letters Award awarded by the Catholic Writers Guild and is published by The Marian Press.  The Catholic Writers Guild is a group of writers, artists, editors, illustrators, and associates dedicated to building a vibrant Catholic literary and artistic culture. The group encourages its members to create, publish, perform, and share their work which reflects core Catholic values.

The award winning novel tells the story of a very young Princess Annabelle who was taken captive by a warring faction in the fictional Kingdom of Anchony.  She finds herself rescued on The Forbidden Island by a loving hermit named Peter who raises her like his own daughter teaching her about faith, and morals.  When she reaches the age of 18, she escapes the island and lands back in the Kingdom of Anchony.  In the meantime, the royal family believes she had died.  While on the island Annabelle is helped by St. Celestria, Anchony’s patron saint, a fictional one, based on a real saint, St. Clare of Assisi.

While working her way back home through the Kingdom of Anchony, she runs into a squire, Nicholaus, who helps her.  Nicholas wants to become a knight.  She also is helped by Sy, a Duke in hiding who is in love with Princess Annabelle’s sister, Isabella.

The Catholic Faith is weaved into the story, as natural as your faith is weaved into your daily life, with prayers to the Father, and His answer back.  The Sacraments are also weaved naturally into the story, and is not heavy handed preaching. Annabelle deprived of the Blessed Sacrament on the island weeps with job when she finally finds herself in His presence.  During this time with our churches shut down due to the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020, we can relate to this hunger for The Holy Eucharist. So it’s an appropriate book to read during your downtime in this isolation. So this Winner of the 2013 Catholic Arts and Letter Awards does indeed build a vibrant Catholic literary culture in her book.

Unfortunately, the story has a few flaws.  The outcome of the war was left hanging, as well as the exact whereabouts of a certain neighboring Prince. Maybe this will be covered in the sequel?

It was fast paced, and although I don’t belong to the age group that the novel was trying to reach, I do believe that Young Adults would enjoy the book, and I recommend it.