What is true love according to Catholic teaching?

In this powerful homily, we explore the profound teaching of Richard of St. Victor's famous work, The Four Degrees of the Violence of Love, alongside the timeless wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas. Far from the modern world's definition of love as mere emotion or pleasure, authentic Christian love demands sacrifice, truth, and even a holy violence against our own pride, selfishness, and sin.

Drawing from Our Lord's words in the Gospel, this sermon reminds us that love always seeks the true good of another—even when it requires forgiveness, repentance, humility, and heroic self-denial.

Ultimately, every question about love is answered by one image alone: the Crucifix.

"The spine of love is truth. The face of love is sacrifice."

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00:24 - Introduction
00:32 - Richard of St. Victor and The Violence of Love
01:12 - Why Love and Violence Belong Together
02:06 - The World's Distortion of Love
03:08 - Love Must Be Bound by Truth
03:35 - St. Thomas Aquinas Defines Love
04:18 - Willing the Good of Another
04:40 - The Violence Against Pride and Self
05:38 - Christ's Command to Reconcile
06:03 - Loving Those Who Wrong Us
06:27 - The Formula for Authentic Love
07:18 - Look at the Crucifix
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