I have found that the process of becoming perfect in love is painful. But I also found that Our Lord pours His abundant graces into our hearts like a healing balm. God is merciful. Thank you Dr. Pitre, this lesson was a great help. It almost seemed meant for me.
Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect means to love as God loves and that includes our adversaries . Thanks Dr. Pitre for your tapestry of biblical knowledge.🕯✝️🕯
Wow so wonderful. Dr. Pitre. You always make my eyes open wide with your teachings. I pray to meet you in person one day. Thank you for this amazing reflection it was something I needed to understand better and I do now.
Yes, this is a very profound teaching and very clear. It becomes obvious that Jesus isn't speaking about sacrificial giving to those far away in first priority but those that are directly and immediately surrounding us. It seems the way society and the church today emphasizes it is in reverse. That is very sobering as it implies there very well could be even very large sums of money donated or bequeathed that gain absolutely no merit whatsoever in Gods eyes. Giving directly to your local homeless seems to be the only way to go, something I started doing and encourage all to do. Giving directly ensures there are no shenagsns or shell games, goes into Christs hand as his hand spares us for all eternity! Amen. +
Dear Dr Pitre, I learned about your channel less than 3 months ago and the only regret I have is not knowing it earlier..... I listen to some of your pieces almost daily, because they teach me the way of love, truth,... Perfect love helped me so much because I was in distress but now I am happy to love those who annoy me. I am spiritually richer now because of your work. May God bless and protect your and your dear ones 🙏
Dr. Brant Pitre... I do not know much about how people become saints but I am sure that you will be one selected in future generations, if not now, in the present day. Thank you for explaining so much.. i wouldve gone to mass my whole life and not have understood the theology without your videos. Thank you
This brought me to tears as I’m currently going through a difficult situation with my parents. So many mixed emotions...from anger to resentment and back to wanting to love and understand them regardless. This video brought me some peace. Thank you Dr. Pitre. Btw, your book “Jesus and the Jewish roots of the Eucharist” was amazing, as a revert, it depend my understanding/ love for the holy Eucharist.
That is a really good passage from Matt. Never looked into it that deep.. Really good and well said Dr. Pitre.. Its not easy. But possible with Jesus in our side.. LOVE SHOULD NOT BE A DUTY NOR POSSESSION BUT RATHER WITH GRACE AND APPRECIATION WITH UNCONDITIONALLY.... 🕊🙏🏻🙌🏻
I’m publishing a weekly TH-cam video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him Thank you.
Thank you Dr. Pitre beautifully explained. I feel like asking God, why God why it's so painful to love those who take pleasure in hurting us hating us.
Really amazing. The perfect, true love is not when you love God (to love the being who gives you being), but when you love like God (to love the being who gives you nothing). And I see now and believe that this is the most important meaning of the expression : to be made in the image of God : to be able not just to reason and to understand the world, the creation, but to be able to love it and to care for it, for all creatures, human and non-human, unconditionally.
Honestly, I'm struggling to love those who blasphemous and attacking our faith...I'm not expecting them to love me back but at least respect our God. And how can I expect myself to love those who keep hurting me...such a difficult task🙏
Do you forget what they did to Him? They murdered God! How can you think that the world would treat the Lord any better than they did back in the first century? Pray the imprecatory psalms for them! It has helped me with these types. Rejoice as the apostles did in Acts. God bless :-)
We're not called to love the reprobate and Satanic. (Yes I know a lot of modernist reprobates "pray for Iscariot" and I've even heard of them praying for _Satan_ - severely deluded and in danger of HELL. Not Purgatory, but Hell. God is not mocked.)
I don't think that's what Dr Pitre is saying at all. Don't put words in his mouth. He mentions the Bible verse this whole talk is based on. And this interpretation explains how to live that out. 1John 4:12 No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us. Basically God's love is brought to perfection in us by us loving our neighbors. ALL our neighbors, even our enemies.
NO MAN CAN GIVE PERFECT LOVE TO GOD, NOT LIKE HIS PERFECT AND HOLY LOVE TO US.. BUT BE CHRIST LIKE LOVE CAN HAVE GREAT REWARD FROM GOD THE BEAUTITUDE OS JESUS.. GOD IS LOVE.. HE LOVE SINNERS WHO REPENTED AND TURNED AWAY FROM SINS AND FROM LOVING ANYTHING ON THIS WORLD .. BUT GOT HATES SINS AND WICKED WAYS.. BECAUSE HE NEVER CHANGE HE IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODSY AND TOMORROW.. HIS HOLY BLOOD IS THE ONLY WAY TO BE WASHED AND BE SAVED.. IN THIS LAST DAYS.. NO ONE CAN ENTER HIS KINGDOM WITHOUT REPENTANCE AND BAPTISM OF HOLY SPIRIT.. NEVER EVER WORSHIP ANY MAN AND MAN MADE IDOLS OF ALL KINDS.. ONLY ONE NAME TO WORSHIP HIS NAME WAS GIVEN THE YHVH/YHWH = YESHUA GOD BLESS..
Contradictory teaching. If God loved me gratuitously then he contradicts gratuitousness by saying I therefore owe him love back. It wasn't really gratuitous, was it?
No He doesn't demand our love. If He did demand it, then it wouldn't be love because it would be forced and that's not authentic love. If we choose not to love Him back, He still loves us because God is love. He wants what is best for us, but He doesn't force Himself on us
How come? We have taken so many lives on earth, I mean we have been reborn so many times. Each time even if we consider that we have loved our neighbor, its a diff neighbor every time. With GOD its diff. Its HIM everytime. You've got it all wrong.
Who told you about reborn? There is no such thing. God came as man and died, resurrected and ascended into heaven to show us the way for eternal life upon death.
@@JJ-nn8kr Who told you that we are not reborn? Who told you God came only once, lived ,died and resurrected himself? You are free to believe what you want. Give others the freedom to believe what they wish. Don't try to push your ideology into my belief. I am not a dumb,helpless, animal that you slaughter for food or whatever.
To love someone unworthy??? Someone who doesn't deserve??? I am only human. I cannot love someone who is undeserving. Are you suggesting that I love a person who has multiple wives????I cannot. You need to be more specific as there are many forms of love.
@@JJ-nn8kr You will soon realize that you are not a novice but you belong among those who think they know everything . This thought has made people like you,( I am not saying ,you) wipe others off the face of the earth repeatedly.
Are you a Christian? No one can love like Dr Pitre is talking about on our own. We can start loving this way if we open ourselves up to God's grace and the Holy Spirit . We are to imitate Jesus. Look at a crucifix. Pour ourselves out for other for love of God
Sorry, beg to disagree. We love God out of duty? Not at all, at its perfect best we love God with the same selfless, gratuitous love that he infuses into us. Love of neighbors flows from that love like a tributary from that prior and major river of love. We love other human beings in a pure way only because we have loved God first.
Are you catholic ? You choose to believe yourself instead of what a Saint beatified by the church got told by Jesus himself, please do not go toward this type of arrogance.
@@deusvult9837 No , it’s why I sin and am failiable and that I try to listen to the words of the saints instead of mine. Sorry for the judgment , but I though maybe we shouldn’t have opinions that go against what god said to a saint of our church …
@@gabrielgboucher6546 as I am sure you know that our Church teaches that we are free to believe or not any private revelation, even those of visionaries or Saints, though we might treat them with respect. But the words of Saints are not always and in everything Gospel truths, like those of Jesus, which are infallible.Saints have made mistakes of judgement in spite of their sanctity, for no one attains perfection in their lives here on earth. I happen to be a great admirer ofSt Catherine of Siena, but here I disagree with the interpretation given to explain Christian love. God bless.
@@gabrielgboucher6546 I’m publishing a weekly TH-cam video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him Thank you.
Who's coming back to this in 2024! St Catherine of Siena, pray for us! :)
Profound 👏 Pray for us St. Catherine of Siena.
Glory to the Holy Spirit who speaks through you and who summoned us all on this channel!
One more of my favourite videos of "Catholic Productions" with Dr. Brant Pitre. Pure amazing good channel, amazing holy catholic Doc!. 👍❤✌🇻🇦✌❤👍🙋🏻♂️
I have found that the process of becoming perfect in love is painful. But I also found that Our Lord pours His abundant graces into our hearts like a healing balm. God is merciful. Thank you Dr. Pitre, this lesson was a great help. It almost seemed meant for me.
AMEN. A perfect Son fully united with God the FATHER loves perfectly.
Like FATHER, like Son.
Thank you Dr Pitre, I needed to hear this. I've been feuding with my neighbor for weeks over something petty. Im going to offer it up and let go.
And pursue peace with him, my brother? :)
@@paxcoder We are at peace now.😊
@@SaintCharbelMiracleworker Peace be with you mate. I got in a fight with the neighbor. The devil's after us man. May God give us strenght and peace.
This philosophy makes total sense of the chaos in this world!!!! 🤣Thank you, Dr. Pitre. Have a fabulous Sunday!
Ouch.. Nailed it. Thanks for the helpful insight, Dr. Pitre & the CP team. May God bless this ministry. 🙏
Simply outstanding!!!
Thanks God we have you
to explain the Word of God Dr.Petri!
God bless you and your family!
This is a hard saying, who can listen to this, dr. Pitre :D
Perfect love indeed...
Out of Self into others 💫🕊🙏Amen 🙏
Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect means to love as God loves and that includes our adversaries . Thanks Dr. Pitre for your tapestry of biblical knowledge.🕯✝️🕯
Amen. The hardest thing to do.
Very hard thanks for powerfully explaining and for citing St Catherine of Sienna
Another great reflection! Praying for you Dr. Pitre. Praying for a full, speedy recovery!
Thank you so much. God bless
God bless everyone 😇🙏♥️♥️.. i love you all.❤️♥️❤️
That was powerful!
Yes. Got it. May God bless us.
Thank you!! Such a challenge. God give us the grace! Love from Philippines🇵🇭
How can you love GOD whom you cannot see if you dont love your neighbour whom you can see?
Dr Pitre never fail in explaining bible verses. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 God bless
Wow so wonderful. Dr. Pitre. You always make my eyes open wide with your teachings. I pray to meet you in person one day. Thank you for this amazing reflection it was something I needed to understand better and I do now.
Yes, this is a very profound teaching and very clear. It becomes obvious that Jesus isn't speaking about sacrificial giving to those far away in first priority but those that are directly and immediately surrounding us. It seems the way society and the church today emphasizes it is in reverse. That is very sobering as it implies there very well could be even very large sums of money donated or bequeathed that gain absolutely no merit whatsoever in Gods eyes. Giving directly to your local homeless seems to be the only way to go, something I started doing and encourage all to do. Giving directly ensures there are no shenagsns or shell games, goes into Christs hand as his hand spares us for all eternity! Amen. +
Thank you
Wow I never thought about love that way. But for those who follow Jesus it's perfectly logical. God Bless
Thank god for the gift of you to share the word of God in such a simple and understandable manner
Dear Dr Pitre, I learned about your channel less than 3 months ago and the only regret I have is not knowing it earlier..... I listen to some of your pieces almost daily, because they teach me the way of love, truth,... Perfect love helped me so much because I was in distress but now I am happy to love those who annoy me. I am spiritually richer now because of your work. May God bless and protect your and your dear ones 🙏
Brilliant!
Dr. Brant Pitre... I do not know much about how people become saints but I am sure that you will be one selected in future generations, if not now, in the present day. Thank you for explaining so much.. i wouldve gone to mass my whole life and not have understood the theology without your videos. Thank you
Was thinking of how much I don't have love and joy whilst driving and people not indicating where they're going, challenge.
I grumble, and then pray for them... sometimes (I'm getting better at grumbling less and praying more, but its a process).
Great!
This brought me to tears as I’m currently going through a difficult situation with my parents. So many mixed emotions...from anger to resentment and back to wanting to love and understand them regardless. This video brought me some peace. Thank you Dr. Pitre. Btw, your book “Jesus and the Jewish roots of the Eucharist” was amazing, as a revert, it depend my understanding/ love for the holy Eucharist.
Thank you very much 😊
That is a really good passage from Matt. Never looked into it that deep.. Really good and well said Dr. Pitre.. Its not easy. But possible with Jesus in our side.. LOVE SHOULD NOT BE A DUTY NOR POSSESSION BUT RATHER WITH GRACE AND APPRECIATION WITH UNCONDITIONALLY.... 🕊🙏🏻🙌🏻
I’m publishing a weekly TH-cam video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him Thank you.
Inspiring
Please expound on this more Dr. Pitre. This is so beautiful.
That's how we show grace towards others in His image - blessed St Catherine 🌻
I'd love to recommend that this should have an application for his daily reading commentaries.❤️
Thank you Dr. Pitre beautifully explained. I feel like asking God, why God why it's so painful to love those who take pleasure in hurting us hating us.
Incredible Dr Pitre!!
Really amazing. The perfect, true love is not when you love God (to love the being who gives you being), but when you love like God (to love the being who gives you nothing).
And I see now and believe that this is the most important meaning of the expression : to be made in the image of God : to be able not just to reason and to understand the world, the creation, but to be able to love it and to care for it, for all creatures, human and non-human, unconditionally.
fantastic I learned a lot from this. Have to read Dialogues from Saint Catherine
Another great video; I also loved the new Saint Joseph videos The Hidden King from Dr. Pitre.
Number 538 hello from Fresno California, thanks catholic productions
this is incredible. Thank you
Wonderful explanation and very touching. Saint Catherine of Siena was not a nun but a Laywoman.
Love your comments! Be perfect by buying your books (I have 4) hahaha! I just need an autograph now!
Honestly, I'm struggling to love those who blasphemous and attacking our faith...I'm not expecting them to love me back but at least respect our God.
And how can I expect myself to love those who keep hurting me...such a difficult task🙏
Do you forget what they did to Him? They murdered God! How can you think that the world would treat the Lord any better than they did back in the first century? Pray the imprecatory psalms for them! It has helped me with these types. Rejoice as the apostles did in Acts. God bless :-)
No one said being a Christian is easy
I make sure I don't hate them and do something wrong to them or wish them bad. For me that is enough.
We're not called to love the reprobate and Satanic. (Yes I know a lot of modernist reprobates "pray for Iscariot" and I've even heard of them praying for _Satan_ - severely deluded and in danger of HELL. Not Purgatory, but Hell. God is not mocked.)
Narrow path vs the wide path 💪
Beautiful!
Wow wow wow! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
my neighbours won't even talk to me??? I pray for them though..
Pray for me
😲🤯👍
We're now certifying private revelation as public revelation?
I don't think that's what Dr Pitre is saying at all. Don't put words in his mouth. He mentions the Bible verse this whole talk is based on. And this interpretation explains how to live that out.
1John 4:12
No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us.
Basically God's love is brought to perfection in us by us loving our neighbors. ALL our neighbors, even our enemies.
Actions ☀️💛
How do you define what loving a neighbor means? What if you don't like them?
The cross we should carry to follow Jesus - our neighbor?
Wheww
NO MAN CAN GIVE PERFECT LOVE TO GOD, NOT LIKE HIS PERFECT AND HOLY LOVE TO US.. BUT BE CHRIST LIKE LOVE CAN HAVE GREAT REWARD FROM GOD
THE BEAUTITUDE OS JESUS..
GOD IS LOVE.. HE LOVE SINNERS WHO REPENTED AND TURNED AWAY FROM SINS AND FROM LOVING ANYTHING ON THIS WORLD .. BUT GOT HATES SINS
AND WICKED WAYS.. BECAUSE HE NEVER CHANGE HE IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODSY AND TOMORROW.. HIS HOLY BLOOD IS THE ONLY WAY TO BE WASHED AND BE SAVED.. IN THIS LAST DAYS.. NO ONE CAN ENTER HIS KINGDOM WITHOUT REPENTANCE AND BAPTISM OF HOLY SPIRIT..
NEVER EVER WORSHIP ANY MAN AND MAN MADE IDOLS OF ALL KINDS.. ONLY ONE NAME TO WORSHIP HIS NAME WAS GIVEN THE YHVH/YHWH = YESHUA
GOD BLESS..
He's been talking to John the baptist again.
Am i suppose to pray a rosary for Hitler??? Is this what Jesus wants? if so i'm in!
human nature is an obstacle. emotions, original sin and concupiscence are real. :( sinful humans
Is Dr. Pitre becoming balder
Contradictory teaching. If God loved me gratuitously then he contradicts gratuitousness by saying I therefore owe him love back. It wasn't really gratuitous, was it?
No He doesn't demand our love. If He did demand it, then it wouldn't be love because it would be forced and that's not authentic love. If we choose not to love Him back, He still loves us because God is love. He wants what is best for us, but He doesn't force Himself on us
How come? We have taken so many lives on earth, I mean we have been reborn so many times. Each time even if we consider that we have loved our neighbor, its a diff neighbor every time. With GOD its diff. Its HIM everytime.
You've got it all wrong.
Who told you about reborn? There is no such thing.
God came as man and died, resurrected and ascended into heaven to show us the way for eternal life upon death.
@@JJ-nn8kr Who told you that we are not reborn?
Who told you God came only once, lived ,died and resurrected himself?
You are free to believe what you want. Give others the freedom to believe what they wish. Don't try to push your ideology into my belief.
I am not a dumb,helpless, animal that you slaughter for food or whatever.
To love someone unworthy??? Someone who doesn't deserve??? I am only human. I cannot love someone who is undeserving.
Are you suggesting that I love a person who has multiple wives????I cannot. You need to be more specific as there are many forms of love.
You seem to be a novice. So keep patiently follow this or similar channel.
@@JJ-nn8kr You will soon realize that you are not a novice but you belong among those who think they know everything . This thought has made people like you,( I am not saying ,you) wipe others off the face of the earth repeatedly.
Are you a Christian? No one can love like Dr Pitre is talking about on our own. We can start loving this way if we open ourselves up to God's grace and the Holy Spirit . We are to imitate Jesus. Look at a crucifix. Pour ourselves out for other for love of God
Sorry, beg to disagree. We love God out of duty? Not at all, at its perfect best we love God with the same selfless, gratuitous love that he infuses into us. Love of neighbors flows from that love like a tributary from that prior and major river of love. We love other human beings in a pure way only because we have loved God first.
Are you catholic ? You choose to believe yourself instead of what a Saint beatified by the church got told by Jesus himself, please do not go toward this type of arrogance.
@@gabrielgboucher6546 very Catholic of you to accuse me of arrogance for expressing an opinion! Are you a saint by any chance?
@@deusvult9837 No , it’s why I sin and am failiable and that I try to listen to the words of the saints instead of mine. Sorry for the judgment , but I though maybe we shouldn’t have opinions that go against what god said to a saint of our church …
@@gabrielgboucher6546 as I am sure you know that our Church teaches that we are free to believe or not any private revelation, even those of visionaries or Saints, though we might treat them with respect. But the words of Saints are not always and in everything Gospel truths, like those of Jesus, which are infallible.Saints have made mistakes of judgement in spite of their sanctity, for no one attains perfection in their lives here on earth. I happen to be a great admirer ofSt Catherine of Siena, but here I disagree with the interpretation given to explain Christian love. God bless.
@@gabrielgboucher6546 I’m publishing a weekly TH-cam video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him Thank you.