Father Cedric Pisegna is a Catholic priest. His program will inspire and encourage you to Live with Passion.
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Live with Passion with Father Cedric | Higher Love | November 5, 2021
- - Who you are is God's gift to you,
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- but who you become is your gift to God.
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- (gentle music)
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- I'm Fr. Cedric Pisegna,
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- welcome to "Live with Passion."
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- I am honored to proclaim the gospel to come into your homes.
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- This is from the Gospel of John chapter 21
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- and it's after Jesus had risen from the dead.
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- And he meets Simon Peter by the Sea of Galilee.
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- And he has a conversation with him and it goes like this.
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- "After breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter
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- "he said, 'Simon, son of John,
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- "'do you love me more than these?'
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- "And Peter said to him, 'Yes, Lord
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- "'you know that I love you.'
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- "And Jesus said, 'Feed my lambs.'
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- "Second time he said to him, 'Simon, son of John,
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- "'do you love me?'
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- "'And he said to him, 'Yes, Lord you know that I love you.'
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- "And he said to him, 'Tend my sheep.'
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- "Third time he said to him, 'Simon, son of John,
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- "'do you love me?'
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- "And Peter was grieved because he said it a third time.
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- "And he said to him, 'Lord, you know everything,
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- "'you know that I love you.'
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- "And Jesus said, 'Feed my sheep.'"
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- I wanna talk about,
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- and this is what this episode is all about, a higher love.
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- And in this dialogue that we just had
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- Jesus was giving Peter a second chance. (chuckles)
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- As you know, Peter had denied Jesus three times.
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- So now Jesus is saying three times
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- he'd get the illusion to the denials.
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- Do you love me?
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- And so he's giving them another chance
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- to recommit himself to Jesus.
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- And it's the same in our life too.
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- Sometimes we are ashamed of Jesus
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- or we don't forgive somebody, or we have this habitual sin
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- and we fall or whatever it is, and we need another chance.
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- And so I'm praying that this program will be another chance
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- for you to grow higher, to go further.
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- This again, is called higher love.
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- And so Peter tells Jesus that he loves him.
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- But it's interesting because there's a play on these words
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- in the Greek, the word love.
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- Jesus used the word agape,
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- which is the way that God loves us,
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- the highest love.
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- It's very selfless, very unconditional.
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- But when he was asked if he loved him,
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- Peter used the word phileo,
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- that's the word for brotherly love
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- or a friendship kind of love.
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- So Jesus was saying,
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- "Peter, do you love me in a very high way?"
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- And Peter was saying, "I love you like a brother." (laughs)
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- The first two times
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- Jesus asked him without higher love.
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- And then the third time Jesus asked him
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- he uses the same word that Peter used phileo
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- instead of agape.
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- In other words, he was coming down to Peter's level.
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- And that's what I love about Jesus.
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- He meets us right where we're at
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- and then he takes us higher.
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- He loves us just the way we are
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- but he loves us too much to leave us that way.
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- So I hope you get this,
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- the third time Peter said yes, I love you.
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- And he used that word, brotherly love again.
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- And then Jesus predicts the way that Peter is gonna die
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- right after this dialogue.
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- And he predicts that Jesus,
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- Jesus predicts Peter's death.
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- And he said that somebody is gonna take you
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- where you don't wanna go.
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- And I don't know if you know this,
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- but Peter was crucified in Rome
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- now st. Peter's Basilica is there,
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- this huge, beautiful basilica.
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- He was crucified right at that spot upside down.
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- And he was crucified upside down
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- because when they were about to crucify him
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- Peter says, "Stop."
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- He said, "I'm not worthy to die
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- "the way my Lord died."
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- He said, "Crucify me upside down."
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- Talk about a selfless,
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- total unconditional giving love for Jesus.
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- So eventually he went from a brotherly love
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- to a higher love.
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- And that's what I'm hoping for everybody
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- watching this program,
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- that whatever level of love you have,
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- remember what Jesus taught he said,
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- "Even the tax collectors love those who greet them
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- "and are nice to them."
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- But he said, "Not you."
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- You have to love even those who talk about you,
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- who don't like you, who are mean to you,
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- who are rude to you.
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- So Jesus was constantly trying to bring us to a higher love.
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- I remember this song growing up in the 70s, Steve Winwood.
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- And he kept seeing that song called "Hire Love."
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- In one of the verses says,
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- "Think about it, there must be higher love."
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- And he said, "Without it, life is wasted time."
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- And then the refrain, "Bring me a higher love."
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- That has gotta be the goal of our life.
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- The elephant in the room
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- if you will, when it comes to Christianity is love.
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- Oftentimes, we wanna be a better person
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- and we strive for prosperity.
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- And we want all these gifts
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- and we wanna follow Jesus and everything
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- and sometimes we forget about love.
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- Paul the Apostle chapter 14 1st Corinthians
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- where he talks about love.
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- He said, "Make love
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- "your aim."
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- So let's not miss the elephant in the room.
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- When it comes to following Jesus
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- we can do all kinds of different things
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- but we can leave out the most important thing.
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- And that's loving people, loving God, and loving yourself.
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- Jesus said, "The first commandment is this,
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- "That you love God with all your heart and soul,
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- "with all your mind and strength
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- "and that you love each other as you love yourself."
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- So let's explore this a little bit
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- because I wanna help you to become the best
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- that you can be.
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- As I said in the teaser
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- at the beginning of the program,
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- who you are is God's gift to you,
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- but who you become is your a gift to God.
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- And discipleship is all about a journey of becoming,
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- it's about growth.
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- It's about maturity, especially in love.
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- And that's what I want you to get.
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- And also
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- Jesus is always trying to take us higher
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- when it comes to our potential,
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- we all have all kinds of gifts
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- that God has put in us,
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- and creativity can grow.
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- Your accomplishments can grow,
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- who you are can become more mature,
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- and realize that he's trying to take us higher
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- and further and to be a more excellent person.
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- So all of the above, your love walk
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- your potential, your character,
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- who you are as a person,
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- I'm praying that you will have a higher love
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- and that you will become all that you can be.
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- I was touched by the Holy Spirit back in 1977,
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- I was 20 years old
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- 19, 20 years old, just a young man.
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- And I mean, it was a very powerful manifestation of grace.
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- And I was so grateful for that.
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- And I remember joining the church.
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- I had been born and brought up Catholic,
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- but I had fallen away, but I came back
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- and when I joined the church,
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- I wanted to be a part of an enthusiastic
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- charismatic type of a worship
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- because that's the way I felt,
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- the Holy Spirit had touched me with God's love.
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- And I really wanted to be a part of something
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- that was alive.
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- So I discovered the charismatic renewal
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- in the Catholic church.
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- And I remember hundreds, thousands of people
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- in the charismatic renewal,
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- even millions of people back in 1977,
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- kind of the hallmark of the charismatic renewal
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- were all these people.
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- And it was the heyday of the charismatic renewal.
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- Went away, everybody's talking about the fire,
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- you know let the fire fall.
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- And they're talking about the winds of Pentecost.
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- And everybody was talking about manifestations of grace.
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- If you talked in tongues, you had it going on.
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- You wanted to be well-known.
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- You were a performer of miracles and all these healings
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- and those type things.
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- And the gifts of the Holy Spirit were being emphasized.
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- People were becoming teachers
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- and everybody wanted to preach the gospel,
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- and all these different gifts
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- and manifestations of the Holy Spirit.
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- I hardly ever heard anybody talk about love.
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- Paul the Apostle said,
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- "I can preach with the greatest eloquence
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- "and if I have no love, I'm just a noisy gong.
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- "I can speak with the tongues of angels.
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- "And if I don't have love, I'm nothing."
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- And so he said,
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- "Make love your aim."
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- And I'm not saying that the gifts and the fire
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- and the wind and the manifestations of the Spirit
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- and tongues and healing, aren't good.
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- They are good.
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- They're beautiful.
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- They're manifestations of grace.
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- However, everybody looks for the great manifestation gifts
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- but they forget about the elephant in the room,
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- as I said, and that elephant in the room is
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- loving God and loving people.
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- An early Christian historian Tertullian
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- he commented about the Christian communities
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- and he said, "See how they love each other."
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- And that's what Jesus said.
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- "Everybody will know you're my disciple
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- "if you have love for one another."
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- That's the hallmark of what it means to be a Christian.
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- They love each other.
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- So as a Catholic priest,
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- I preside at wedding ceremonies.
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- And usually it's a younger type people.
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- People are in their 20s and 30s,
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- and most wedding ceremonies that I've ever had
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- or presided at,
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- they all have this 1st Corinthians chapter 13.
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- If you know anything about the Bible, it talks about love.
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- And everybody wants to have that at their wedding day
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- because it talks about love and they're getting married.
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- So love is
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- foremost.
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- But I think what younger people want
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- and sometimes they can be a little deceived
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- about what love is, (chuckles)
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- they want, love is erotic,
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- love comes with all these feelings,
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- love will make you completely happy and satisfy you.
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- It will, but not in the way they're thinking
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- because that's the way our culture talks about love.
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- There are songs out,
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- the songs just about 90% of the songs on the radio
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- are about love.
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- And I remember one song was called "Addicted to Love."
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- And most of those songs about love are sexual.
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- And they have to do with eroticism
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- and all these type things.
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- But the bottom line is, is that love in our culture is that,
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- but the love that we're talking about from the Scriptures
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- is totally different rather than the love that they want
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- at their wedding to be, love is erotic
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- and love is romantic and love is all these feelings.
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- This is what we get from 1st Corinthians 13.
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- "Love is patient,
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- "love is kind,
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- "love isn't jealous,
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- "it's not boastful,
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- "it's not rude."
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- Try proclaiming that at a wedding. (laughs)
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- And that's exactly what the couple needs to hear
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- because a marriage is all about being selfless
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- with each other,
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- raising children, having children and raising them.
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- And you will find out what love is.
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- It's not about all the feelings,
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- it's about giving of yourself to your spouse
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- and your children.
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- So it's really important to understand
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- that love is about selflessness.
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- That's a agape love.
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- Agape love is the way God loves,
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- unconditionally, selflessly, generously.
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- We heard in John 3:16,
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- "For God so loved the world."
- 00:12:03.337 --> 00:12:05.339
- What?
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- "That he gave."
- 00:12:06.173 --> 00:12:07.608
- That's what love is.
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- It's a giving thing.
- 00:12:08.475 --> 00:12:10.077
- So that's why people have it read at their wedding.
- 00:12:10.077 --> 00:12:12.346
- But I don't know if they understand exactly what it means.
- 00:12:12.346 --> 00:12:15.449
- There's some kind of an illusion about love.
- 00:12:15.449 --> 00:12:18.218
- So the opposite of love is not hate.
- 00:12:18.218 --> 00:12:21.455
- The opposite of love is selfishness.
- 00:12:22.256 --> 00:12:24.925
- And Jesus is inviting everybody to a higher love.
- 00:12:25.959 --> 00:12:28.996
- I remember presiding at my mom and dad's 50th anniversary.
- 00:12:30.164 --> 00:12:35.002
- This was a number of years ago
- 00:12:35.636 --> 00:12:37.404
- and they were married for 54 years.
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- And I stood right between them
- 00:12:41.008 --> 00:12:42.810
- when they exchanged their 50th wedding anniversary vows,
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- it was one of the most privileged moments of my life.
- 00:12:47.548 --> 00:12:51.018
- Here's my mother and father exchanging their vows
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- right in front of me.
- 00:12:54.087 --> 00:12:55.656
- And as I thought about it, I thought,
- 00:12:56.456 --> 00:12:58.559
- when you're first married you're a romantic
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- and you have all these sexual feelings
- 00:13:00.761 --> 00:13:02.563
- and you get the goosebumps,
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- and you get the chills up and down your spine.
- 00:13:03.931 --> 00:13:06.200
- Well, 50 years later, those things wear away.
- 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:08.969
- It's not so romantic anymore.
- 00:13:08.969 --> 00:13:10.504
- The feelings go away.
- 00:13:10.504 --> 00:13:12.139
- You know what it is to wake up with bad breath
- 00:13:12.139 --> 00:13:14.474
- next to each other.
- 00:13:14.474 --> 00:13:16.009
- You see the wrinkles you hear all the noises that they make.
- 00:13:16.009 --> 00:13:20.013
- Well, you've raised children.
- 00:13:20.013 --> 00:13:22.649
- You go through hard times,
- 00:13:22.649 --> 00:13:24.017
- you know exactly what your spouse is like.
- 00:13:24.017 --> 00:13:26.587
- And then 50 years later here they are holding their hands,
- 00:13:26.587 --> 00:13:29.289
- looking into each other's eyes,
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- saying their vows to each other.
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- That's what love is,
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- faithfulness, endurance.
- 00:13:36.330 --> 00:13:40.033
- I remember reading.
- 00:13:40.033 --> 00:13:41.301
- And this was from a man named Dr. Gary Chapman.
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- And he put out a book called "The Five Love Languages."
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- Perhaps you've read it.
- 00:13:48.842 --> 00:13:49.776
- It's very well-known book.
- 00:13:49.776 --> 00:13:52.412
- And he talked about,
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- we all show love to different people in different ways.
- 00:13:53.881 --> 00:13:57.251
- And one of the ways is words of affirmation.
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- We compliment each other.
- 00:14:01.421 --> 00:14:03.523
- We say, Honey, you look beautiful today,"
- 00:14:03.523 --> 00:14:06.193
- or "You're gonna do it."
- 00:14:06.193 --> 00:14:07.427
- "I'm gonna help you.
- 00:14:07.427 --> 00:14:08.929
- "I'm gonna be with you as you achieve your goals."
- 00:14:08.929 --> 00:14:12.065
- So it's those words that we speak
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- to support each other.
- 00:14:15.269 --> 00:14:17.771
- And that's a way that you love.
- 00:14:17.771 --> 00:14:19.606
- I make my living as a Catholic priest by preaching. (laughs)
- 00:14:20.807 --> 00:14:23.543
- By speaking words.
- 00:14:23.543 --> 00:14:24.745
- This television program "Live with Passion"
- 00:14:24.745 --> 00:14:27.714
- is a love letter to you.
- 00:14:27.714 --> 00:14:30.217
- And the way I love you, indiscriminately
- 00:14:30.217 --> 00:14:34.021
- because many of you, I don't know, never heard from you.
- 00:14:34.021 --> 00:14:36.823
- You haven't written me.
- 00:14:36.823 --> 00:14:38.425
- Most of you haven't donated to me,
- 00:14:38.425 --> 00:14:41.128
- but I'm happy to share the gospel with you.
- 00:14:41.128 --> 00:14:44.364
- And this is one of the ways that I love.
- 00:14:44.364 --> 00:14:46.633
- Other people love by
- 00:14:46.633 --> 00:14:48.502
- soup kitchens or clothing the naked,
- 00:14:49.303 --> 00:14:52.673
- or by reaching out into prisons.
- 00:14:52.673 --> 00:14:54.741
- Although this program reaches into prisons too.
- 00:14:54.741 --> 00:14:57.411
- So what I'm simply saying is that
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- words are one of the ways that we love.
- 00:14:58.979 --> 00:15:02.215
- That's one of the love languages.
- 00:15:02.215 --> 00:15:04.651
- Second one that he talked about really quickly,
- 00:15:04.651 --> 00:15:07.788
- and it had to do with action.
- 00:15:07.788 --> 00:15:10.123
- These are our deeds.
- 00:15:10.590 --> 00:15:13.093
- As I'm filming this,
- 00:15:13.093 --> 00:15:14.361
- we are in the midst of a pandemic (chuckles)
- 00:15:14.361 --> 00:15:17.731
- and the pandemic is worldwide.
- 00:15:17.731 --> 00:15:20.767
- To me, a love language is a nurse at a hospital
- 00:15:20.767 --> 00:15:25.038
- risking her life to help somebody,
- 00:15:25.038 --> 00:15:28.575
- or a doctor in the midst of a pandemic.
- 00:15:28.575 --> 00:15:31.945
- And many of them got sick and some of them died
- 00:15:31.945 --> 00:15:35.182
- because they were willing to risk their lives
- 00:15:35.182 --> 00:15:37.517
- to help people.
- 00:15:37.517 --> 00:15:38.485
- First responders,
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- people who tested people,
- 00:15:40.587 --> 00:15:43.623
- people who fed people in the midst of this pandemic.
- 00:15:43.623 --> 00:15:48.895
- So these are some of the actions that I'm talking about.
- 00:15:49.963 --> 00:15:53.367
- I think about one of our priests and Haiti,
- 00:15:53.367 --> 00:15:55.902
- Fr. Rick Frechette
- 00:15:55.902 --> 00:15:57.671
- who is reaching out to the poorest of the poor in Haiti.
- 00:15:57.671 --> 00:16:01.074
- He's a doctor and a priest,
- 00:16:01.074 --> 00:16:03.910
- and that's a love language for him,
- 00:16:03.910 --> 00:16:06.179
- spending time with the poorest of the poor.
- 00:16:06.179 --> 00:16:08.248
- So I think you get my point, love is action.
- 00:16:08.248 --> 00:16:12.853
- It's deeds.
- 00:16:12.853 --> 00:16:14.488
- I think about the Acts of the Apostles,
- 00:16:14.488 --> 00:16:16.189
- for example, we have 28 chapters
- 00:16:16.189 --> 00:16:18.525
- of the apostles and what they did to spread Christianity
- 00:16:18.525 --> 00:16:23.363
- all over the ancient world.
- 00:16:23.363 --> 00:16:25.265
- And all these deeds, all these acts,
- 00:16:25.265 --> 00:16:28.368
- the Acts of the Apostles, that was their love language.
- 00:16:28.368 --> 00:16:32.973
- They were actually doing something.
- 00:16:32.973 --> 00:16:35.742
- And by the way, in the Scriptures
- 00:16:35.742 --> 00:16:37.411
- you gotta get this verse.
- 00:16:37.411 --> 00:16:38.645
- I'm talking about the elephant in the room
- 00:16:38.645 --> 00:16:40.047
- that is love.
- 00:16:40.047 --> 00:16:41.381
- Galatians 5:6,
- 00:16:41.381 --> 00:16:43.617
- and this is what Paul the Apostle said, Galatians 5:6,
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- "All that matters is faith
- 00:16:47.521 --> 00:16:50.757
- "being made effective in love."
- 00:16:50.757 --> 00:16:54.227
- As I said, most Christians we got faith.
- 00:16:54.227 --> 00:16:57.330
- We have hope.
- 00:16:57.330 --> 00:16:58.799
- We're trying to get the gifts
- 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:00.333
- and all these different things.
- 00:17:00.333 --> 00:17:01.868
- All that matters is your faith being made effective by love.
- 00:17:01.868 --> 00:17:06.740
- So please don't miss the elephant in the room.
- 00:17:07.641 --> 00:17:09.109
- That's Galatians 5:6.
- 00:17:09.109 --> 00:17:10.944
- And then another love language,
- 00:17:10.944 --> 00:17:13.013
- people give gifts.
- 00:17:13.013 --> 00:17:15.282
- I think I get cards.
- 00:17:15.749 --> 00:17:17.918
- I think others give cards.
- 00:17:17.918 --> 00:17:20.687
- Whenever I get birthday cards
- 00:17:20.687 --> 00:17:22.422
- or different type of cards for Christmas.
- 00:17:22.422 --> 00:17:24.891
- I always think this is the way that these people are loving,
- 00:17:24.891 --> 00:17:27.961
- and there's flowers and chocolates,
- 00:17:27.961 --> 00:17:30.263
- maybe Mother's Day or your birthday.
- 00:17:30.263 --> 00:17:33.100
- You might give that or get that.
- 00:17:33.100 --> 00:17:35.268
- This is the way that you show love by giving gifts.
- 00:17:35.268 --> 00:17:38.238
- And remember what I told you,
- 00:17:38.238 --> 00:17:40.073
- "For God so loved the world
- 00:17:40.073 --> 00:17:41.308
- "that he gave his only begotten Son."
- 00:17:41.308 --> 00:17:43.643
- That's the greatest gift ever given.
- 00:17:43.643 --> 00:17:45.378
- That's the way that God showed his love for us.
- 00:17:45.378 --> 00:17:48.482
- So another quick love language is
- 00:17:48.482 --> 00:17:52.152
- touch.
- 00:17:52.152 --> 00:17:53.720
- During the pandemic touch was missing.
- 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:57.390
- We were isolated.
- 00:17:57.858 --> 00:17:59.593
- We were independent of each other.
- 00:17:59.593 --> 00:18:01.728
- People are starved for touch.
- 00:18:01.728 --> 00:18:05.699
- And so that's what a sacrament is in the Catholic church
- 00:18:05.699 --> 00:18:08.368
- by the way, whether it be confession or communion
- 00:18:08.368 --> 00:18:11.304
- or baptism or confirmation, it's a touch of Jesus.
- 00:18:11.304 --> 00:18:16.643
- A sacrament is God's love language,
- 00:18:17.410 --> 00:18:19.412
- God touching us through oil or water
- 00:18:19.412 --> 00:18:23.150
- or bread and wine.
- 00:18:23.150 --> 00:18:25.018
- The wonderful touch of God.
- 00:18:25.018 --> 00:18:27.154
- And I'm praying as you watch this program
- 00:18:27.154 --> 00:18:28.855
- you will sense God touching you with his love.
- 00:18:28.855 --> 00:18:31.825
- And then lastly, of course, the love languages,
- 00:18:31.825 --> 00:18:33.827
- we're talking about the five love languages, quality time.
- 00:18:33.827 --> 00:18:37.430
- I remember growing up my dad,
- 00:18:37.430 --> 00:18:39.432
- he worked hard in everything
- 00:18:39.432 --> 00:18:40.667
- but I'll tell you the one thing he did was
- 00:18:40.667 --> 00:18:42.402
- he spent time with me.
- 00:18:42.402 --> 00:18:44.104
- Anytime I wanted it,
- 00:18:44.104 --> 00:18:45.772
- he would drop everything and spend quality time.
- 00:18:45.772 --> 00:18:48.608
- You wanna love God with all your heart and soul,
- 00:18:48.608 --> 00:18:50.577
- mind and strength, spend some quality time with God.
- 00:18:50.577 --> 00:18:55.015
- That's love.
- 00:18:55.015 --> 00:18:56.116
- That's a love language.
- 00:18:56.116 --> 00:18:58.084
- So it's important that we love
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- through practical deeds,
- 00:19:01.421 --> 00:19:03.790
- through words of affirmation,
- 00:19:03.790 --> 00:19:06.126
- through becoming the best person that we can be.
- 00:19:06.126 --> 00:19:08.495
- (clears throat)
- 00:19:08.495 --> 00:19:09.729
- Want to share with you about Leo Buscaglia.
- 00:19:09.729 --> 00:19:12.299
- Maybe you've heard about this man.
- 00:19:12.299 --> 00:19:14.601
- Years ago, he was called the Dr. of Love, Leo Buscaglia.
- 00:19:14.601 --> 00:19:19.506
- One time he had a contest that he was asked
- 00:19:19.506 --> 00:19:21.508
- to judge about young people.
- 00:19:21.508 --> 00:19:23.276
- And the object was they wanted to try to find
- 00:19:23.276 --> 00:19:25.612
- the most caring child.
- 00:19:25.612 --> 00:19:27.581
- And so they had a contest
- 00:19:27.581 --> 00:19:29.583
- and the winner was a little four-year-old boy
- 00:19:29.583 --> 00:19:32.452
- whose neighbor had just lost his wife.
- 00:19:33.286 --> 00:19:36.256
- And what happened was when the little boy saw the neighbor
- 00:19:36.256 --> 00:19:39.025
- in the other yard crying, he went over across the yard.
- 00:19:39.025 --> 00:19:43.263
- He went up and he sat on his lap
- 00:19:43.263 --> 00:19:45.865
- and his mother said to him later she said,
- 00:19:45.865 --> 00:19:47.601
- "What did you say to the man?"
- 00:19:47.601 --> 00:19:50.203
- And the little boy said, "Nothing.
- 00:19:50.203 --> 00:19:52.472
- "I just sat on his lap and helped him cry."
- 00:19:52.472 --> 00:19:56.543
- And that's called the ministry of presence.
- 00:19:57.477 --> 00:20:00.580
- Just being with somebody.
- 00:20:00.580 --> 00:20:02.415
- That happens in a love relationship.
- 00:20:03.283 --> 00:20:04.851
- You don't always have to say anything.
- 00:20:04.851 --> 00:20:07.420
- You just simply be with the other person
- 00:20:07.420 --> 00:20:09.589
- and hold their hand,
- 00:20:09.589 --> 00:20:11.024
- ministry of presence, spending time.
- 00:20:11.825 --> 00:20:15.695
- And that's exactly what God does for us.
- 00:20:15.695 --> 00:20:19.032
- He surrounds us with his love.
- 00:20:19.032 --> 00:20:22.369
- He never forsakes us,
- 00:20:22.869 --> 00:20:25.238
- always with us.
- 00:20:25.605 --> 00:20:27.807
- And I want you to get a sense
- 00:20:27.807 --> 00:20:29.876
- that God's loving you right now.
- 00:20:29.876 --> 00:20:33.113
- You see that's what the Scriptures tell us.
- 00:20:33.980 --> 00:20:35.949
- God
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- is
- 00:20:37.017 --> 00:20:38.018
- love.
- 00:20:38.018 --> 00:20:39.019
- Agape love.
- 00:20:39.019 --> 00:20:40.153
- Unconditional, generous giving love.
- 00:20:40.153 --> 00:20:43.857
- You have to understand that the whole world was created,
- 00:20:43.857 --> 00:20:46.493
- of course, God breathed the stars into the universe.
- 00:20:46.493 --> 00:20:51.798
- The mountains, the people,
- 00:20:52.399 --> 00:20:53.933
- there are 7.8 billion people on the face of the Earth.
- 00:20:53.933 --> 00:20:57.337
- And he created you and me.
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- Every breath, every heartbeat.
- 00:21:00.173 --> 00:21:02.042
- Every moment is a gift from God.
- 00:21:02.042 --> 00:21:04.477
- So get in touch with God's love for you right now
- 00:21:04.477 --> 00:21:07.380
- because really it's hard to love unless
- 00:21:07.380 --> 00:21:11.117
- you experienced God's love.
- 00:21:11.117 --> 00:21:12.585
- That comes right from the Scriptures
- 00:21:12.585 --> 00:21:14.254
- that God loved us first.
- 00:21:14.254 --> 00:21:17.457
- And that's how you can even reach out
- 00:21:17.457 --> 00:21:19.025
- to those who harm you and who abuse you
- 00:21:19.025 --> 00:21:22.395
- and you can forgive them,
- 00:21:22.395 --> 00:21:24.297
- your enemies, those who don't like you
- 00:21:24.297 --> 00:21:26.232
- that this higher love through experiencing God's love.
- 00:21:26.232 --> 00:21:29.869
- I remember the story of Thomas Merton.
- 00:21:29.869 --> 00:21:32.105
- Great monk lived in Louisville, Kentucky
- 00:21:32.105 --> 00:21:34.974
- place called Gethsemani, Kentucky, just South of Louisville.
- 00:21:34.974 --> 00:21:38.845
- He had this experience one time
- 00:21:38.845 --> 00:21:40.947
- when he went into town in Louisville,
- 00:21:40.947 --> 00:21:43.550
- it was Fourth and Walnut right on the edge of a street.
- 00:21:43.550 --> 00:21:46.152
- He was standing there.
- 00:21:46.152 --> 00:21:47.320
- All of a sudden God's love touched him
- 00:21:47.320 --> 00:21:49.389
- in a very powerful way.
- 00:21:49.389 --> 00:21:51.057
- Remember one of the love languages is touch.
- 00:21:51.057 --> 00:21:54.928
- So God's love touches him by the Holy Spirit
- 00:21:54.928 --> 00:21:57.097
- and he's looking out at all these people
- 00:21:57.097 --> 00:21:59.299
- walking around on the street
- 00:21:59.299 --> 00:22:01.034
- and he had this sudden realization that he loved everybody.
- 00:22:01.034 --> 00:22:05.538
- There was a plaque on the corner
- 00:22:06.172 --> 00:22:07.640
- of Fourth and Walnut right now.
- 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:09.976
- And it's called the Epiphany to Thomas Merton.
- 00:22:09.976 --> 00:22:12.746
- And I'm praying that you will have epiphanies in your life.
- 00:22:13.947 --> 00:22:16.716
- And you will realize how deeply loved you are
- 00:22:16.716 --> 00:22:21.221
- so that you too can become
- 00:22:21.221 --> 00:22:23.456
- a person of love and have a higher love.
- 00:22:23.456 --> 00:22:26.559
- Because once you experience the touch of God,
- 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:28.928
- then you can be able to forgive.
- 00:22:28.928 --> 00:22:32.565
- Then you can reach out to others.
- 00:22:32.565 --> 00:22:35.168
- Then you can help others in a more powerful way.
- 00:22:35.168 --> 00:22:38.838
- So
- 00:22:38.838 --> 00:22:39.939
- Jesus was always trying to move us higher.
- 00:22:40.774 --> 00:22:45.211
- When he called his apostles, they left everything
- 00:22:46.212 --> 00:22:49.783
- and they followed him and they began a new way of life.
- 00:22:49.783 --> 00:22:54.154
- And he taught that right from the Scriptures.
- 00:22:54.154 --> 00:22:56.289
- Let me share it with you.
- 00:22:56.289 --> 00:22:57.624
- He said, "If you love those who love you,
- 00:22:57.624 --> 00:23:01.161
- "what reward do you have?
- 00:23:01.161 --> 00:23:03.163
- "Even tax collectors do the same.
- 00:23:03.897 --> 00:23:06.766
- "And if you greet those who are just your friends
- 00:23:06.766 --> 00:23:10.804
- "what good is that?
- 00:23:10.804 --> 00:23:12.672
- "Don't even non-believers do that."
- 00:23:12.672 --> 00:23:15.642
- But he said, "Strive for a higher love."
- 00:23:15.642 --> 00:23:18.778
- God's love, agape love.
- 00:23:18.778 --> 00:23:20.413
- Because God's love.
- 00:23:20.413 --> 00:23:21.815
- God makes his sun shine on the good and the bad.
- 00:23:21.815 --> 00:23:24.751
- He makes his rain fall on the just and the unjust.
- 00:23:24.751 --> 00:23:27.954
- And so Jesus was trying to move us
- 00:23:27.954 --> 00:23:30.390
- through his loving us to a higher love.
- 00:23:30.390 --> 00:23:33.526
- And that's my prayer for you as you watch this program,
- 00:23:33.526 --> 00:23:36.596
- we all have people who are annoying,
- 00:23:36.596 --> 00:23:40.333
- who are against us,
- 00:23:40.333 --> 00:23:42.101
- who are bitter, who are rude.
- 00:23:42.101 --> 00:23:45.538
- And instead of pushing them aside
- 00:23:45.538 --> 00:23:48.908
- I pray that the love of God will flow through you.
- 00:23:50.009 --> 00:23:53.313
- And this is the wonderful anointing of the Holy Spirit.
- 00:23:53.313 --> 00:23:56.449
- The love of God will flow through you to them
- 00:23:56.449 --> 00:23:59.185
- so that you can forgive them
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- and reach out to them, and be a loving person.
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- This is what it means to be stretched and to follow Jesus.
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- So please don't miss the elephant in the room.
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- Jesus came up to Peter after the resurrection
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- and gave him another chance
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- and is giving us all another chance.
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- And he said, "Peter, do you love me?
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- "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.
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- "Do you love me?
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- "Yes, you know that I love you.
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- "Do you love me?"
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- And he was trying to bring him higher.
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- And in the same way he's trying to bring us higher too.
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- You can make a difference
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- even in the lives of those who don't love you.
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- And don't just, live with passion.
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- (gentle music)
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- I want you to experience God's love
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- and be brought to a higher love.
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- I got a letter from a woman.
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- She said, "You changed my life after I saw you
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- "many years ago."
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- Whoa, that's exactly what this program is all about.
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- Changing lives, saving souls.
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- And then she said, "I purchased your books
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- "and I give them to friends."
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- Thank you.
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- And then she said, "Keep telling us about God's love."
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- God loves you just the way you are
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- but he loves you too much to leave you that way.
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- Every experience, every heartbeat,
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- every moment is a gift from God to you.
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- I wrote a book called "You Are Loved."
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- And in this book I talk about God's love.
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- Reading this book will help you to experience God's love
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- so that you will have a deep,
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- intimate relationship with God.
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- And you will come to a higher love
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- and be able to even forgive your enemies.
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- Those who don't like you.
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- So all you gotta do is call that number,
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- write me at that address, go to my website,
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- check out my website.
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- And for those of you who want to give a love offering,
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- I am so appreciative.
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- Thank you because you're helping me
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- when you buy my resources,
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- when you donate to my ministry,
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- you're helping me to reach out with the love of God
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- and come to a higher love to people all around this world.
- 00:25:55.435 --> 00:25:59.005
- So again, call me at that number right now,
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- reach out to my website, write me at that address.
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- Thank you so much.
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- Don't just live, live with passion.
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- (gentle music)
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- - [Announcer] Fr. Cedric talks about real life
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- and real issues that face us all.
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- For over 14 years Fr. Cedric has broadcast
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- "Live with Passion" on television and radio.
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- Father is inspiring believers
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- and reaching out to those who have not yet come to faith,
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- because of these programs,
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- lives are being changed and souls are being saved.
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- Please support Fr. Cedric
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- in his God-given mission to proclaim the gospel
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- to every person.
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- Fr. Cedric is a priest with a professed vow of poverty.
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- That means that all of your money will be used
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- to help him to reach out with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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- Many are hurting and lost.
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- Together we can change the world.
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- To donate to Fr. Cedric simply call 844-FATHERC,
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