Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host and

delighted to have you here with us. We have our chaplain with us, Father Hugh Barber,

a Norbertine priest of the Abbey of St. Michael

in Orange County where they're building

a new and beautiful church.

You should check it out online. Hello

Hello, hello, good to see you. We talked a bit about friendship last time. We did.

And you got you you brought us into a conversation about divine love and the participation, the possibility of participation of humans in divine love.

But now we switch from friends to enemies today, and we're not even going to cover

frenemies. I don't believe frenemies are covered in the Bible but... Oh yeah they're around.

They're around. Judas. No no, Judas would just be an enemy.

Oh, okay, all right.

Okay, so enemies, in Matthew and Luke,

we get the instruction from Jesus to love your enemies I think Paul gives the same

instruction the letter to the Romans or at least to love those who persecute you

what is this all about?

Well, again, just as with friendship itself, we have to take it back to its divine source, what could love of enemies mean? Well, first of all, it's something that we imitate, everybody we imitate the God in his nature,

we are fashioned, in his image we have fashioned.

Remember last time we found out that that charity divine love is precisely a form of friendship.

The friendship is the first, you could say category or characterization or precision on what it means to love God, to love one's neighbor.

And this is rather astounding when you consider that friendship means in some sense an equality

between the two.

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