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Instead, we will be revisiting some of my favorite weeks of content.

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Hey there, friends. Today is Thursday, January 31st, 2019. It 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. St. 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.

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