Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat the host. If you joined us last week on the

podcast, you heard the first half of Bishop Aaron's recent talk from the world meeting of families,

where he spoke on the gospel of the family. In this episode, we'll feature the second half of

Bishop Aaron's talk, and then next week we're going to have Bishop Aaron back in the studio.

So sit back and enjoy the second half of Bishop Aaron's talk from the world meeting of families.

So the families of school of virtue, we've now heard about the virtue of hope and how it is standing

a thwart, some of this technology today. The third major section he talks about education in

sexuality. Perigraph 280, he broaches this sensitive topic for the first time. He says that

sex education was clearly called for by Vatican II, which is true, and that we should certainly

use the Pope says all of these psychological and biological and didactic sciences to help us

understand sexuality. Absolutely, right? Grazia's opponent, Natura, Grace builds on nature, so we should

use all of the natural sciences we have to understand the phenomenon of human sexuality. Great. But

then he has, but the proper moral training in sexuality has to go beyond those and include

primarily a training in love. Now, I know there's that word love, which is just problematic in English,

because it's kind of unnewised. What's love? I go back to St. Thomas Aquinas, my hero,

to love is to will the good of the other. Nice, isn't it? Simple, clear bracing. To love is not a feeling,

not a sentiment, nor is it loving myself through another. Do you know what I mean? So I'll be nice to

you that you might be nice to me. That's not love. That's just sort of indirect selfishness.

To love is to break out of the black hole of my self-regard that draws everything into itself,

and really to want, to want what's good for the other. That's everything, Christians. That's

the whole spiritual life. By this they will know that you are my disciples, that you love one

another. Love is the height of the mystical life. And so, like everything else in life, sexuality

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