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- Love, THEOLOGICAL VIRTUE OF, the third and greatest of the Divine virtues enumerated by St. Paul (I Cor., xiii, 13), usually called charity, and defined: a Divinely infused habit, inclining the human will to cherish God for His own sake above all things, and man for the sake of God.
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Our Sunday Visitor’s Catholic Encyclopedia entry on “Love” defines it as: [A]ny strong affection, closeness, or devotion to things or persons. The Greeks distinguished four types of love: storge, philia, eros, and agape.
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Love, THEOLOGICAL VIRTUE OF, the third and greatest of the...
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In his Treatise on the Love of God, St. Francis de Sales expresses it more poetically when he states, “Love is the movement, effusion, and advancement of the heart toward the good.” Love overcomes separation and intimately unites us with reality.
The first reading for mass today is about love. Saint John says, “let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.”. The entire reading is about God’s love for us and our love for God, and for one another.
St. Thomas Aquinas defines it as "willing the good of the other" — the simplest definition of love I've ever seen. Agape is an act of the will, not the feelings. That is why we are...
Love, THEOLOGICAL VIRTUE OF, the third and greatest of the Divine virtues enumerated by St. Paul (I Cor., xiii, 13), usually called charity, and defined: a Divinely infused habit, inclining the human will to cherish God for His own sake above all things, and man for the sake of God.
Feb 1, 2022 · One definition of "love": In religious use: the benevolence and affection of God towards an individual or towards creation; (also) the affectionate devotion due to God from an individual; regard and consideration of one human being towards another prompted by a sense of a common relationship to God. Cf. charity n.
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Jul 14, 2023 · “Love,” writes Pope Benedict, “is ‘divine’ because it comes from God and unites us to God. It makes us a ‘we’ which transcends our divisions and makes us one, until in the end God is ‘all in all’ ” (no. 18).