
Fatherhood, Devotion to Mary, and Catholic Pet Peeves (Sam Guzman) | Ep. 300
Pints With Aquinas
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What Does This Say About Me?
The gospel tells us to love our neighbor and to love our enemies, because they're often the same people. And that's often a greater martyrdom than dying for all humanity. It doesn't have to be anything extraordinary, a learning to love your neighbour. But what ampathy does is it teaches you to kind of imaginatively enter into the world with someone else’s inner life - and respect their inner life as well. We are not born with an ability to see ourselves as real; we have to learn to purify our sion and swell our innocence. That's really the process of ampathy.
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