The most fundamental passion is love, aroused by the attraction of the good. Love causes a desire for the absent good and the hope of obtaining it; this ...

12 февр. 2023 г. · “'To love is to will the good of another.' All other affections have their source in this first movement of the human heart toward the good.

Love is the source of prayer; whoever draws from it reaches the summit of prayer. In the words of the Cure of Ars: l love you, O my God, and my only desire is ...

Genuine love is to desire the ultimate good of another person. This is a very simple definition of love. It isn't complicated.

Thomas Aquinas defines it as "willing the good of the other" — the simplest definition of love I've ever seen. Agape is an act of the will, not the feelings.

5 февр. 2019 г. · The Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us, "God is Love and love is his first gift, containing all others.

Love seeks to be definitive; it cannot be an arrangement "until further notice." the "intimate union of marriage, as a mutual giving of two persons, and the ...

Love is one of the three theological virtues: faith, hope, and love (Catechism of the Catholic Church [CCC], 1822; 1 Corinthians 13:13).

Here we will consider what it means to be made in God's image, why male and female are foundational to God's design, the gift of love, the nature of marriage,