https://freerepublic.com/tag/ponderingpruning/ en-us Mon, 4 May 2015 14:05:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3286043/posts Pondering Pruning – A Meditation on This Necessary Work of God in Our Lives By: Msgr. Charles PopeThe gospel from Sunday (John 15:1-8) presents us with an important meditation on the difference between love and kindness. Perhaps some further reflections from this gospel are in order today.There is an unfortunate tendency in our times to reduce love to kindness. Kindness is an aspect of love, but so is rebuke. It is an immature notion of love that reduces it merely to affirming, or that refers to proper correction as a form of “hate.”We saw in yesterday’s gospel that proper care... Archdiocese of Washington https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3286043/posts#comment Mon, 4 May 2015 14:05:25 GMT