My dear parishioners, you’ve heard it said, I’ll never love again, My hope is gone, or I don’t need faith. Though such thoughts suggest awful experiences of some sort, you don’t hear forlorn people claiming that faith, hope and love or similar “goods” of character are in themselves worthless. To clarify, the person who says I’ll never love again -- whatever that may mean -- does not attack love as an idea or as an ideal. To the contrary, he is expressing his own personal inadequacy and unhappy history in matters of love.