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Thank you Father! This has been very helpful.

Are there any pre-confession priests who specialize in hearing what you actually did, then drafting it all into an acceptable confession that does take weeks to recite? Asking for a friend.

I enjoy your videos so much. They are so inspiring. I've never treated prayer like a planning session before - I tend to do the sidecar thing. I will pray differently tomorrow morning because of your words. Thank you!

Thank you for speaking to us on such an important topic. I'm a property manager for a church and I am now constantly asking myself if I am loving or using. It made my heart skip a beat when thinking about it and now its something to add to my next confession. I never want to use/sin/hurt. I always want to love. On that note...thank you for everything you do Fr. Columbine. God bless! 🙏

Thank you father. You give us so much insight and wisdom. I look forward to your videos.

Thank you jesus

The opposite of love is the absence of love. One chilly morning as I sat near a pier in the local marina sipping on my mug of cherished coffee, an elderly gentleman in a hooded jogging suit jogged up next to me and smiled. I smiled back. Then he said to me, do you know what love is? I replied no and requested him to tell me what love is. He looked at me with a slight smile worthy of great memories and said, “love is a tickling sensation around your heart that you cannot scratch.” He then turned, jogged off, and faded into the marina without another word. I have never forgotten that moment.

Disgust

Apathy

Indifference.

Feel it every minute of the day

Thank you jesus

Yes its about Him. Nice imagery

I will defer to greater minds, but in my thinking, the opposite of love is apathy. To feel nothing towards someone is to disdain them completely.

This isn't true. Sometimes your children can take you for granted and you feel used but you still love them over everything else you feel. If you reduce love to a feeling and nothing else you've already missed the uniqueness of love. To your point, love and feeling used can coexist, albeit not happily. So they're not opposites because they're not contradictory. The opposite of love is indifference. And those two things cannot exist at the same time. And they're both not mere feelings. They are verbs.

All glory to God

The quote you mentioned by St. Paul also really helps to explain to non-Catholics why we try to do "good works". It's Not to "earn our way to Heaven", but rather to use the Grace God gives us -- not snuff it out -- so that we can show our thanks to God and glorify Him by moving forward from the place we were (the place of predominant fault) into a place of transformation (becoming more like Jesus, acting out of love for God). It's in response to God's love, Not to earn it. Thank you, Father Columba.🙏🕊❤🙏✝️👑🙏⛪🕯📿👏👏👏

I think it’s indifference.

Indifference

Yes that's me. This short will help me try harder to give it over to God.

Before the end i decided to answer... apathy

AMEN! I always thought, how could Padre Pio pray 100 Rosaries a day, with everything else he was doing? I've only managed 3 and not daily....ten on a rare occasion. Yet, I do love the Rosary now, and the peace I receive from our Lady.❤📿🙏✝️👑🕯

Thank you for the recommendations. I trust your judgment. So many books I've started to read and fell asleep with (Merton...I know, lots of people recommended him 💤). Love Dr. Scott Hahn Dr. Brandt Pitre Dr. Tim Gray, and as you mentioned, Chesterton ( Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man) C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, Fav's) I also was really captured by Thomas a Kempis', "Of the Imitation of Christ" and "Introduction to the religious life", Loyola or De Sales -- I must need to read it again if I'm forgetting who even wrote it.😅

Aw, Father Dubai (?). He helped me so much when I was watching T.V. (EWTN) way back.🙏✝️RIP

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"Just pull back all the ways I try to control or influence..." I was thinking, can prayer said in the wrong attitude become one of the ways we try to control or influence other people? Like that slot machine image, it seems to me we can turn prayer, even prayer for objectively good things like the conversion of family into a desperate means for trying to control what happens in the world, and ironically end up making ourselves into mini idols and not let God be God. We just keep on putting in coins and pulling the level on the God machine and one of these days three cherries will line up. But if that's so, how do you pray for anything and let God be God, and keep your self idolatry in check?

Fr. God bless you. Could you do a short on scrupulousity? I'm struggling.

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Jesus loves you and is with you all glory to God

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Thank you Father! This is really helpful and practical to my daily lives. Amen!

I have used my whole life because of my own stupidity, naivety, and my own sin… it does make you stupid and you make stupid decisions…. Which allows you to be used in all kinds of ways. Teach me Lord!!!! Your servant is listening!!! Or trying so hard to listen!!!

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ignored?

You have to know love before you can know it's opposite. Too many don't know love, or have lost their first love.

Contempt. It is the biggest predictor of divorce

Selfishness is the opposite of love. We use people for our own selfish gain. Jmho

Thanks very much 🙏 I love it 💕

Thank you Fr. Columbine for your Guidance and Support ✝️

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Fr. Columba, thank you SO much!! 🙏❤️

Please Lord, let me know what you want my purpose to be now that you took my husband from me. I’m so lost without him. I’m listening Lord . Where do I go from here.

Please Lord, let me know what you want my purpose to be now that you took my my husband from me. I’m so lost without him. I’m listening Lord . Where do I go from here.

Great video Father 👍..And ..Gerry (behind ya)is looking wonderful 😉

Believe it or not, I picked eight! It sorta just happened - but while I regularly call upon the intercession of all of them in prayer, I am endeavouring to know them each individually, one at a time. I started with a consecration to St Joseph, and now I am learning about St Teresa of Avila while reading The Interior Castle. Eventually, I will come to Sts. Thérèse, Thomas More, Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, Paul, and my confirmation saint, Patrick. They each resonate with me in some way; they each have an aspect to their relationship to God and to the world that I desire to emulate.

You can uncrumple a piece of paper, but the creases will remain.

3.service - what if people don't want service? we can't just force people into accepting our service?