Part 4 of our stripped down look at Amoris Laetitia with some commentary by PopeWatch:
91. Love is patient.
92. Patience takes root when we accept the right of people to live in the world just as they are.
93. Love is kind.
94. Love is shown more by deeds than by words.
95. Love is not jealous.
96. Love rejects covetousness, unless, apparently, the covetousness is in service of the welfare state to reduce inequality. (Another example of the Pope attempting to use Biblical texts to support his leftist political agenda.)
97. Love is not boastful.
98. We show our love in how we treat the members of our family.
99. Love is not rude.
100. Loving kindness knits a firm social fabric.
101. Generously serving others is far more noble than loving ourselves.
102. Cites Saint Thomas Aquinas for the proposition that it more proper to charity to desire to love than to desire to be loved.
103. Love is not irritable or resentful.
104. Do not let the day end without making peace in your family.
105. Love forgives.
106. Family communion can only be preserved through great sacrifice and forgiveness.
107. Forgiving others allows us to forgive ourselves. (Not necessarily and an easy forgiveness of our own sins by ourselves is often not a good thing.)
108. If we accept that God’s love is unconditional than our love can be boundless.
109. Love rejoices with others.
110. God appreciates those who find joy in the happiness of others.
111. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
112. Love bears all things. The Pope interprets this as an admonition not to say hurtful comments to each other.
113. Married couples should not harp on each others’ faults.
114. Love believes all things. (A reference to faith in God.)
115. Love trusts.
116. Love does not despair in the future.
117. The hope of true love encompasses a certainty of life after death.
118. Love endures all things.
119. The Christian ideal, especially in families, is a love that never gives up.
120. Conjugal love is a symbol of the love of Christ for humanity.
More tomorrow.
Thank you for doing this handy line by line synopsis. On p.139 #182 Pope Francis says that Jesus’ family was perceived as “ordinary” and he contrasts the Holy Family with some Christian families which are seen as “remote” and not really a part of the community “Even their relatives feel looked down upon or judged by them”. Is this a sect in Argentina? He also refers to “their constant harping on the same two or three issues”. I don’t understand many of the things Pope Francis says (not just in AL). But this seems very peculiar. Have you any idea where/who these families are?
“All you need is love.” The Beatles.
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“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
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What about the sin(s) (against love/Charity) committed when the first marriages were wrecked?
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“Love hurts,”
Love scars,
Love wounds and marks
Any heart not tough or strong enough
To take a lot of pain. Take a lot of pain . . .” – Nazareth
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Charity and Christianity are impossible for fallen man. But, with God all things are possible.
“Love bears all things. The Pope interprets this as an admonition not to say hurtful comments to each other.”
Unless that person believes adhering to Church teaching is important, then calling him a self-absorbed Promethean Neo-Pelgian is okay.
The Spiritual (Nobody cares!) Works of Mercy include: “Admonish sinners.” Admonish: warn or reprimand someone firmly; synonyms: reprimand, rebuke, scold, reprove, reproach, upbraid.
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I can’t find fault with the Pope’s words above as they mirror St. Paul’s epistle on Love.