Father Matthew Wiering Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
Today's second reading from the John's first letter opens like this: "Children, let us love not in word and speech but in deed and truth." St. John is telling us not so much that we shouldn't express love with our words, but that, for our love to be authentic, it must be backed up by deeds. This is hugely important in a culture where to "love" someone is thought to mean to have warm feelings for them. It follows then that if someone makes me feel bad there cannot be love there. What John puts into focus for us is that our love is proven when we do for each other what is best for each other (through actions), which is consistent with Aquinas's definition of love: "Willing (choosing) the good for the other".
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Bearing the Fruit that God is Looking For
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Which Son Will We Be?
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Getting What We Deserve
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Why Jesus Expects Us to Forgive
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time: How and Why to Correct Another Person
8/30/20: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time: Seeing our Suffering as God Sees It
8/23/20: 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time: Where is the Pope in the Bible?
8/9/20: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time: If Jesus Needed to Pray, then we REALLY Need to Pray
8/2/20: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Only Proper Response to another Person
7/26/20: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Who is the Pearl of Great Price?
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Why Does Jesus Teach with Parables?
7/12/20: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time: God is not Like Us: What the Strange Sower Tells Us About God the Father
7/5/20: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Surrendering our Burdens to Jesus
6/28/20: 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Losing our Life...So that We Can Find It
6/21/20: 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Pains (and Awkwardness) of Being a Prophet
6/14/20: A Personal Reflection on the Eucharist
6/7/20: My Vocation Story
5/31/20: Pentecost Sunday: What the Holy Spirit Can Do in Us
5/26/20: A Saint for Our Times: Philip Neri
5/24/20: Ascension Sunday: Even in Times of Struggle, the Father's Hand is Raised in Blessing
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