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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, January 29th, 2019. This week on the Catholic Sprouts

podcast, we are talking about the theological virtue of love. Yesterday, we talked about,

with the help of St. Thomas Aquinas, how the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and love are really

very united, and together they define the life that we should be seeking to live. Today, we're

going to dive into the virtue of love. Now, chances are you're familiar with love. Love is a word that we use all the time.

Hopefully, you have a couple of people in your life that you tell them that you love them every day.

Your siblings, your parents, your grandparents, maybe even a beloved teacher.

And that is so good.

The problem with the word love is that it can mean a lot of different things. For example, we can say, I love chocolate and I love Jesus Christ. Now, hopefully those things mean different things. When you're using the

word love in those sentences, it means something different. Hopefully, your feelings towards your

parents or Jesus is a little bit different than your feelings toward chocolate.

So that is a problem.

We use this one little word to mean a lot of different things.

Now, understanding love is even more complicated because of the stories and the movies that we watch sometimes.

In fact, the major confusion about love comes from what we see in Hollywood.

Let me explain.

A lot of times in Hollywood movies, we understand that there's a character that is seeking after love the

entire course of the movie. Maybe it's a child that's seeking after a family to adopt them.

Maybe the main character is an animal that is seeking after a relationship with a pet owner that

will love them. Or maybe it's a romantic story about a man and a woman that fall in love and get

married. In all of these situations, we are made to believe something very wrong about love.

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