St. John Paul II at one point, he said, the opposite of love is not hate.

What do you think he said it was?

I'm my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and this is the Sentry Presents. You know that in the Bible, if you're looking at Genesis 1 in Genesis Chapter 2, you realize that what we're made for, I've talked about this so many times, we're made for at least three things, right? We're made for labor. You know, God works. he puts it in the garden to work, made for leisure.

He rests on the seventh day.

We're called to enter into his rest.

And he made us... You know, God works, he puts it in the garden to work, made for leisure. He rests on the seventh day.

We're called to enter into his rest. And he made us to share in maybe God's deepest identity. The catechism says it like this. It says, Jesus reveals the innermost secret of God. What is the innermost secret of God? That God is an eternal exchange of love. Basically, another way to say it is, the innermost secret of God is that God is love.

Love isn't just something God does, but love is who God is. If you're made in God's image and likeness, the innermost secret of you is that you're made for love. So we're made for three

things. For labor, for leisure, and for love.

It's our call. And in some ways, that love is our deepest identity. And yet what happens is,

well, Genesis 1 and 2 reveal that it's all good. We're made for that. Genesis 3 reveals the

brokenness and the introduction of brokenness. And so now, from now on, we all have

distortions. We have distortion of labor. We have a distortion of leisure. And we experience a

distortion of love. So what's the distortion of love? Which what John Paul II was getting at.

He said the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love, he said, is use. The opposite

of love is not hate. The opposite of love is use. I would say that's one of the distortions of love, he said, is use. The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is

use. I would say that's one of the distortions of love. There's another distortion of love.

We can see what John Paul is saying. The opposite of love, love is that, love is what? Love is

willing the good of the other. Right? So love is willing to go together. And yet, what is

use? Use is willing to use the other, right? It recognizes the

usefulness of the other person. I recognize the fact that this person has something that could

benefit me, has something that I want. That's a trap. Right? Instead of it being a gaze of love, this gaze of I can will, I can choose the good of

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