How to Get Real Friends
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
How many real friends do you have? Honestly, many people we call friends would probably better qualify as pals or buddies. The first step to getting real friends is to recognize how we are all made to be gifts of love. God is love and we were made in his image. We were also made for community, because God is a community of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Living out this love and community as God does requires availability and vulnerability.
By availability we mean “care-free timelessness”, as Catholic evangelist Matthew Kelly calls it.
By vulnerability we mean taking off the mask. This is the really hard part. As a missionary Fr. Mike knows once said, vulnerability is not just transparency. Transparency is letting someone look into the fish bowl. Vulnerability is inviting them into the fishbowl and letting them move things around.
How can we all learn to grow in love, community, availability, and vulnerability so we can become real friends to others and live as the image of God in the world?
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| 0:00.0 | Well, here we go. |
| 0:02.0 | Once again, making some videos. |
| 0:04.4 | Making copies, Timbo. |
| 0:06.8 | Okay, here we go. |
| 0:17.9 | Hi, my name's Father Mike Smiths and this is AscentRepresents. |
| 0:20.0 | I know every single one of us longs for friendship. |
| 0:22.0 | Like every single one of us wants really good, healthy, |
| 0:25.6 | like vibrant, lively community. |
| 0:27.7 | And then you might be like, well, you're not everyone wants |
| 0:29.6 | to say similar introverts, like listen, I'm an introvert |
| 0:31.6 | and I also recognize the fact that God said in the beginning, |
| 0:34.7 | it is not good for man to be alone. |
| 0:36.1 | And there's something we're made for each other. |
| 0:38.6 | We're made to be gifts of love. |
| 0:40.8 | We're made to receive love. |
| 0:41.8 | Okay, so we're made for friendship. |
| 0:43.2 | We're made for community. |
| 0:45.2 | We made for other people. |
| 0:46.2 | In fact, little side point, |
| 0:48.1 | that's one of the ways in which we actually image God in this world |
| 0:52.8 | because God is a Trinity of persons, right? |
| 0:54.2 | God is love, God is a communion of persons. |
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