Hey Spouts, during the months of June and July, we will not be having new content here on the Catholic Sprouts podcast.

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

And here is one of those weeks.

Enjoy!

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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Friday, February 1st, 2019. It is also the feast day of a wonderful

Irish saint, St. Bridget. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about the

theological virtue of love. We talked about how faith, hope, and love, all three virtues are really united

and define how we should be striving to live. We also talked about how the crucifix is the

ultimate symbol of what loving means and how it is giving, not getting. We also talked about how Jesus commanded us to love

in two ways. We are called to love God with our whole mind, heart, and soul. And we are also,

like St. John Bosco, called to love our neighbor as ourself. Today we are going to conclude talking about this

amazing virtue by talking about how the virtue of love bears fruit. Before we get there, however,

I want to remind you of a beautiful passage that St. Paul, the apostle, wrote.

In his letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul goes through all of the virtues, lots of him.

But he concludes by saying that the most important of all virtues is love. And without love, we basically don't have anything at all.

Love is everything. If we don't love God, we won't have faith. If we don't love God, then why would we be

hopeful that we can go to heaven with him?

Love is the ultimate, the universal, the all-uniting virtue. And the amazing thing about love is the more

we really strive to love God to to give him more of ourselves,

the more that we strive to love the people in our lives and love them simply because they

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