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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.
In Catholic usage the various forms of ministry include these features: 1. service of God, who is glorified by the loving service given to others; 2. authorization by the Church's hierarchy...
1 Φεβ 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.
Love overcomes separation and intimately unites us with reality. In its interpersonal expression, it affirms the reality of the beloved, that is to say, his or her truth, goodness, and desirability. “Love is not blind,” G. K. Chesterton remarks in Orthodoxy. “That is the last thing it is.
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.
Catholic Encyclopedia: Love, Theological Virtue of. The third and greatest of the Divine virtues enumerated by St. Paul (1 Cor., xiii, 13), usually called charity, 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.
21 Φεβ 2006 · Deus Caritas Est is divided into two major parts. In Part 1, the Pope addresses the concept of love, especially as developed in the rich terminology of classical thought, and asks whether...
