Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I am a Dominican friar of the province of

St Joseph. I teach at the Dominican House of Studies and I work for the domestic

Institute and this is Pines with Aquinas. When we use the word love, we use it to describe any number of things or any number of responses.

So you can say for instance, I love Tyrumiseu or I love vacation or I love my friend Dominic or I love the Lord Jesus Christ

and it's clear that you're using the word love there in different ways, but those ways are somehow related.

The use is, you know, partly diverse, but partly alike. So as Christians then, like,

what are we doing when we use the word love and what are we doing when we love simply?

Okay? So I think that in examining these different phenomena in our life, we can shed some light on our human experience and come to a deeper appreciation of what it means

to be a Christian in the world surrounded by good things and good people.

So let's take a look at it.

Here we go.

Okay. Here we go.

Okay, so following St. Thomas Aquinas. Big surprise.

The highest realization, love comes from without, it comes from beyond, and it testifies to us of a life which God makes you know possible for us which God pours into our very hearts with an abundant generosity

Okay, so in review we've got love as an emotion, love as a choice, love as a

relationship, and love as a gift. And you know like we think here, 1st Corinthians 13 and the way that St Paul writes

so beautifully of love, if I have not love, right, I'm a crashing gong or you have it translated in various ways I like tinkling symbol because it's hilarious

right I'm just I'm just empty noise loud perhaps potent perhaps but lacking symphin lacking

harmony lacking the appropriate resonance, right?

Just lacking what we as human beings are ultimately

made for by virtue of the divine gift.

So we'll talk about love in that final sense

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