Following the Head or Heart?
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to romantic relationships, people often question whether they should follow the head or the heart. But what about our friendship with God? Is the head or the heart more important in the spiritual life?
The two, of course, go together. If you want to love Jesus more, it's absolutely crucial that you form your mind with his truth. For every new thing you learn about God is another reason for loving him.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:19.3 | What's more important, the head or the heart, for spiritual eyes for our relationship with God. |
| 0:25.6 | Should we put the emphasis on forming our minds, our head, or should we put the |
| 0:30.5 | emphasis on forming the heart? There would be Christians that would have different perspectives on this. |
| 0:36.5 | Many of course would say, oh you need both, but if you had to give an emphasis it would be on |
| 0:41.2 | forming the mind, right right intellectual formation because you |
| 0:44.1 | can't love what you don't know we need to know who God is we need to know his revelation to us |
| 0:49.2 | what what he's taught us we need to know the truth so we can love him and live according to his plan |
| 0:54.2 | so we have to put the accent on the head on forming the mind then there be others |
| 0:58.8 | that would say oh no the accent mark should be on forming the human heart because there are so many simple |
| 1:05.1 | uneducated pious people throughout the ages that are great saints. They're much |
| 1:09.5 | holier than the scholars and the learned Christians because it's all about charity it's all about love of God and love of neighbor and how many simple people who may not know that much theology have lived the Catholic faith to such great extent. |
| 1:24.4 | There's so many saints out there that have lived charity, love of God, and love of |
| 1:29.0 | neighbor so well. |
| 1:30.5 | It's really the heart that matters most and you'll hear Christians have |
| 1:33.8 | conversations and debates about these matters and everybody seems to have |
| 1:37.5 | their own personal opinion but I think we want to make sure that our judgment on |
| 1:41.9 | this matter is grounded in God's word, grounded in what God |
| 1:47.0 | has said about these matters. We'll all come with our own personal opinion, our knee-jerk reaction, |
| 1:52.0 | but especially when it comes to understanding the heart, people use the word heart so loosely to describe so many different aspects of our human existence. |
| 2:02.0 | I want to make sure we are thinking clearly about what is the |
| 2:05.3 | human heart as God has revealed it in sacred scripture and how we find it in the Catholic |
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