What Is Love #catholic #christian #love #jesus #bible #scripture #podcast

[annegonzalez]

Baby don't hurt me
Don't hurt me
No more
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[jackloo]

Agree completely. Just because it doesn’t mean being blandly nice, it also doesn’t mean being overtly rude.

[Seanph]

I still like Bishop Barron’s take in this that to truly love someone is “to will the good of the other as other.”

[PYHRAN]

Agreed, criticizing others is a very slippery slope. One must always remember that The Lord is indeed mighty and fearsome, but still a truly loving God. One must use criticism as a tool not a weapon. A tool to help souls find The Lord.

[Alexander-frkk]

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” They will know we are Christians by our love.

[mditt]

Love is a verb. "Preach the Gospel always...use words if ya have to." Saint Francis of Assisi

[theignorantcatholic]

Appreciate the input. Helps with my quickness to criticise...

[CadenL.P.DuCôté]

Prof. Pierce was my lecturer (online through Tan Academy) for Shakespeare. He’s a very intelligent and knowledgeable man.

[susanpetrie]

Become best friends with the saints. Let them into your heart. They will teach you now to respond to others.

[JonOchoa]

Here is a line of reasoning to consider:
From 1 Cor 13:4 & 13
“Love is patient; is kind…is greatest.”

Turns out patience and kindness are directly proportional to peace and joy.

Furthermore, the greatest form of patience and kindness possible is always being patient and kind for God, even in the face of unjust cruelty through death, as shared by Jesus Christ in His Passion and Crucifixion and Resurrection, which when shared in community with like-loved people experiences unbreakable peace with limitless joy!

[libertasinveritas]

Love means willing the best for the other. That can also include disagreeing with something self-destructive on the other's part, but that disagreement should be spoken in a manner we would want to be spoken to.

[sandstorm]

"Avoid love without truth, but also truth without love."

[jacquedegatineau]

This is what philosophers and theologians have described as the Haddaway problem.

[PatMcAnn]

The 2.5 hour conversation is worth listening to Highly recommend!

[Ezekiel-]

Oh, how so many of us Catholics try to go beyond what Scripture says and remake the Lord's words through Scripture into our own. We are to love one another in spirit and truth. Love does not exist apart from the Truth who is Jesus or apart from the divine character traits of the Holy Spirit, which includes righteous anger towards the injustice of sin and evil and towards the sweet sounding lies of niceties and sophistry. That's willing the good of the other, calling each other to the merciful justice of a repentant life.

[shariable]

To will the best for others: helping them attain heaven. Kindly, gently and compassionately.

[Saved_Sinner]

"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends."

[ThomasGSaul]

I’ll offer a gentle critique, love is a choice but it also includes affectivity, the emotional or sensitive response to some good or evil. Love as “pure” choice is a bit reductive, borderline Kantian. The perfection of love includes choosing the best for a person with concomitant affectivity (joy, peace, reverence.) Effective vs affective charity

[stevearttus]

Truth. Your message should be based on Truth and formulated to inspire a turning to the Truth.
That is loving.
"If you don't have something nice to say, find a nice way to say it."
That one is mine.

[timrichardson]

It is a very important point that love is not an emotion, that it is seeking the good of another even to the point of laying down one's life for them. However, this can be used as an excuse not to feel and act kindly and compassionately toward others. Jesus didn't act like an emotionless automaton. Jesus was moved with compassion. Jesus wept. These are emotional descriptions. It's hard to truly love someone without feeling something for them. Paul says, though I give all I have to the poor and give my body to be burned, but have not love... So, it sounds possible to do things for the good of others (objectively speaking), and yet not really love them.