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Hey there, friends. Today is Thursday, January 31st, 2019. It is also the Feast Day of St. John Bosco.

This week on the Catholic Spouse podcast, we have been talking about the theological virtue of love.

We have talked about how all three theological virtues, faith, hope, and love,

are really linked together. We also talked about how the crucifix is the ultimate reminder

and symbol of what love really is, and that love is about giving, not getting.

Yesterday we talked about how Jesus broke down love into two of the most important commandments.

The first is that we should love God with our whole heart, mind, and soul.

And today we're going to talk about the other part of that loving commandment that Jesus gave us,

that we should love our neighbor as ourself. Now, before we get into this, we should remember that neighbor in this situation means any human being that we come into contact with,

anyone, whether it's face to face over the phone online

wherever so every single human being on the face of this earth is our neighbor and we should love them

and treat them as well as we treat ourselves. Now, as it turns out,

we have an incredible example of loving other people today in our saint. Saint John Bosco was born just over 200 years ago. He was born in 1815. Now, he lived in

Italy and he was a priest and a teacher. The interesting thing about the time when St. John

Bosco lived is that the world was changing a lot right then.

For generations and generations, before this, most people grew up on small family farms.

People had a little bit of livestock. Family was kind of close and they lived a sort of rural life. However, at the time

the St. John Bosco lived, we call it now the industrial revolution, which means that cities were

starting to grow and they were beginning to build factories. And for the first time ever,

there were these huge cities where people came to find

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