Love is indeed a wonderful thing, yet love is not a thing.
Love cannot be adequately described in words because it has so many beautiful aspects.
But it is not just beautiful because it has that rosy lovey-dovey feeling.
Over and above all the words that can be used to describe love, it must be said that love is a sacrifice.
God revealed that love is a sacrifice when on the Cross, Jesus showed how great and wonderful love is.
So even if we have faith but no love, then faith is just a word without a meaning.
That is why in the 1st reading, it says that what matters is faith that makes its power felt through love.
So when it comes to giving alms or helping the poor, it is not the amount of money but about the love that is in the act of giving and helping.
But we cannot give or share what we do not have.
Hence, in the Response to the Psalm, we say: Lord, let your love come upon us.
May the love of the Lord be always upon us, so that we will live out our faith with love.