Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.

If I had to pick one word that sums up the secular vision of morality. I would pick the word tolerance.

There's a lot of talk about tolerance in our secular relativistic world today, isn't there? We're called to tolerate each other. How come

we just can't be more tolerant and get along and just coexist with other people? We need

more tolerance in this world. That's the best our secular society can come up with.

Now don't get me wrong, tolerance is a decent thing, you know, but we're called to do so much more with the people in our lives and simply tolerate them.

I mean, I tolerate a bad storm. I tolerate

cold weather. I tolerate horrendous traffic. But I'm called to actually love the

people in my life. That's what Jesus came for. He came to call us to love, not just

tolerate people. Do you want to be a part of building a civilization of

mere tolerance or do you want to really make a difference and build what

St. John Paul a second called a civilization of love? That's what we're going to

talk about in today's episode here.

And I want you just to think about this.

I mean, imagine if somebody asked me,

hey Edward Sri, how is your family going?

And how's your marriage going?

And I said, oh, my marriage is great. Yeah, Beth and I, we tolerate each other. Yeah, we, you know, Beth and I, yeah, we coexist. Is that the ideal marriage? I don't think so. A great marriage is one that doesn't simply tolerate the other person.

And a great marriage husband and wife grow in love and unity and trust. That's what we long

for. The same in family life.

As someone says, how's your family life at Ritzry?

Oh, my family life is great.

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