17th Sunday after Pentecost – On the Love of God ~ St Alphonsus

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How can we truly love God with our whole heart? In this sermon for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost, St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori explains why divine love is the one thing necessary for salvation and Christian perfection. Jesus declares: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart.” Yet St. Alphonsus warns that this greatest commandment is also among the most neglected. We readily give our affection to family, friends, possessions, honors, and earthly comforts—but how much of our heart do we reserve for God? St. Alphonsus considers why God deserves our complete love: His infinite goodness, beauty, mercy, generosity, and especially the love revealed through the Passion and death of Jesus Christ. He then explains how we can answer that love by avoiding deliberate sin, desiring holiness, detaching ourselves from creatures, accepting God’s will, and giving ourselves to Him without reserve. The sermon concludes with three essential means of acquiring and preserving divine love: meditation—especially upon Christ’s Passion—Holy Communion, and persevering prayer. May Our Lady obtain for us the grace to love God with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength. 00:00 17th Sunday After Pentecost: On the Love of God 00:27 The One Thing Necessary 00:48 The Greatest Commandment 01:02 Why So Few Truly Love God 01:35 Two Points of the Sermon 01:52 Why God Deserves Our Whole Heart 03:35 God’s Love Revealed Upon the Cross 05:00 Divine Love Makes the Soul Rich 05:54 The Holy Trinity Dwells in the Loving Soul 07:04 Charity, the Mother of All Virtues 07:55 Love Sweetens Every Suffering 08:57 How to Love God With Your Whole Heart 09:50 Guard Against Mortal and Venial Sin 10:37 Desire to Grow in Divine Love 11:20 Resolve Courageously to Become a Saint 12:22 Do Not Delay Your Conversion 12:54 Detach the Heart From Creatures 14:29 Seek Only to Please God 15:53 Love God Without Reserve 16:24 The Different Forms of Divine Love 18:55 Love God With Patience 20:17 Three Means of Preserving Divine Love 20:27 Meditation on the Passion of Christ 21:21 Holy Communion: The Furnace of Divine Love 21:33 Persevering Prayer 22:22 Ask Our Lady for the Gift of Divine Love #SaintAlphonsusLiguori #LoveOfGod #CatholicSermon #TraditionalCatholic #CatholicFaith #DivineLove #SpiritualLife #CatholicChurch #JesusChrist #HolyEucharist #ChristianPerfection #SensusFidelium 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 Support Catholic Businesses here - https://sensusfidelium.com/catholic-businesses/ Sensus Fidelium Press - https://sensusfideliumpress.com/ Sensus Fidelium Apps - https://sensusfidelium.tv/ Support Sensus Fidelium - https://sensusfidelium.com/donate-support/ 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 Sensus Fidelium is your go to for sermons on the catholic church, faith, growing in holiness, study of the scriptures, anything and everything you need to be set on fire for the Lord and His Church.

Topics

• Love & Compassion
• Holy Spirit
• Pentecost