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Day 22: The Necessity and Caution of Friendship (Introduction to the Devout Life)

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The Limits of Love

St. Gregory Nazianzen says that when the peacock struts about and spreads his tail, his cry excites the pea hen to lust. By contrast though, chaste friendship is always equally honorable, modest, and amiable,. never changing except into a more perfect and pure union of spirits. Father Jacob Bertrand: How would we set up that conversation thinking about friendship as a way to God?

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