#244 Friendship in God’s Plan - Fr. Hugh Barbour, O. Praem.
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🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Friendships under strain. We've got help on the way, Father Hugh Barber, next. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I'm Cy Kellit, your host, and today we talk a little bit about friendship and disagreement |
| 0:15.8 | with Father Hugh Barber and in part I'm motivated by the fact that a lot of us are stuck together |
| 0:21.4 | with our close friends in some cases that would be |
| 0:23.9 | spouses and so we thought we'd turn to father for some conversation about |
| 0:29.4 | friendship. First of all, hello Father Hugh Barber. Hello there. |
| 0:33.1 | It's a friendly greeting. |
| 0:34.2 | There was very friendly. |
| 0:35.4 | You're right. |
| 0:36.5 | Father you, a Norbertine priest of the St. Michael's Abbey |
| 0:39.8 | up the road from us and also the chaplain here at Catholic Answers and okay father so |
| 0:46.0 | friendship this is what I'm getting I there's a lot of practical advice on not |
| 0:51.4 | ruining your marriage during the COVID-19 and not ruining your |
| 0:56.2 | friendships during COVID-19. But some of this practical advice I have to say suffers |
| 1:01.6 | it seems to me from a lack of a deeper understanding of what friendship is and what the what its purpose is. You know it's kind of secular |
| 1:10.3 | advice so I thought it would talk a little bit about get it, dig a little deeper into friendship. |
| 1:15.0 | Sure, and we can dig very deeply because in Christian theology of the moral life, charity or love, which is the highest virtue and the form of all |
| 1:29.7 | the other virtues, that without which we cannot be saved, right? That is the chief thing, the first and |
| 1:35.1 | great commandment love God and the second which is like it, love your neighbors yourself, or the |
| 1:39.7 | new commandment love one another is I've loved you, right? |
| 1:43.9 | It's all about love. |
| 1:44.9 | If you don't love, then you're not living the Christian life. |
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