“Anyone who has loved knows how much waiting goes into it – how much waiting is important for love to grow, to flourish through a lifetime.”

The homily of Fr. James Donelan is over all a piece about the beauty of waiting. It explains not only about waiting on the simple things in life such as waiting for the meals to be served or waiting for our first job, but it also expounds about waiting as a bigger aspect such as waiting for your true love or waiting to say goodbye. He first explained that everyday is filled with little moments of waiting. Then, he tells us about current philosophies about seizing the day for life is short that would actually have us forget the need for patience and the need for waiting. That kind of philosophy may apply to other people, but he explains that if we never learn to wait, we people will never learn to love any other person other than ourselves. He then connects his homily about waiting to the aspect about love. He showed us the beauty and what we can benefit and what we can lose if we wait for whom we love. He tells us how to find out if someone is worth waiting for through our gut feel. Also, he tells us the difference between “hoping” and expecting” – that hoping means you’re open to whichever side and to whatever happens & that expecting means you’re definitely waiting for something to happen. Lastly, he ended his homily with 2 things: what you can rely on with waiting – your own gut feel, your heart, and your mind & questions to ask yourself to find out if he or she is worth waiting for.

As a teenage girl, I have only experienced REAL love just once. I may not have that much experience, but this homily really struck me. It doesn’t only explain “waiting” as just “waiting”. It explains “waiting” as a sacrament and all of it’s beauty. More in particular, one particular quote really got to me: “Anyone who has loved knows how