What St. Francis and Lepers Can Teach Us About Love

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Is there someone in your life that is hard for you to love? In this episode, Dr. Sri explains the call of every person to love their neighbor despite how we feel about them. Using examples from the saints, Dr. Sri encourages us to rise above our feelings and choose to love.

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A real sign of conversion is in how we choose to love our neighbor.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:14.1	Right now, I want you to think about that person, that person in your life that's difficult
0:20.2	to get along with, that person that you just don't like to be around.
0:24.1	Maybe it's because they're just too proud, they're too arrogant, they're always thinking
0:27.6	about themselves, they're self-centered, or maybe they're just too talkative, or they're
0:31.8	just too emotionally sensitive, too emotionally needy, and you just don't like to be around
0:36.7	them, or maybe they're too shy, and they're awkward to be around, maybe they don't have
0:41.2	good hygiene.
0:42.2	Or there's just something about this person's personality that repulses you.
0:47.8	Maybe this person just frustrates you.
0:50.2	You know, there's, again, something about them that you see their weaknesses, or they
0:54.4	let you down.
0:55.4	What do we do in those situations as Christian disciples?
1:00.1	How do we love our neighbor when everything in our heart just wants to run away from our
1:04.9	neighbor?
1:05.9	And this can happen, by the way, with family members, certain relatives, or certain people
1:10.0	we grew up with, or maybe someone in the office, or someone in our parish.
1:14.7	It can happen in the normal course of family life where there's a family member that's
1:17.9	really bothering you right now.
1:19.4	What do we do in these situations?
1:20.7	I think that we have to see that these are profound opportunities where we're being invited
1:26.8	to love, to love like Jesus loves.
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