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Love of Neighbour is the Same Love as Love for God (2)

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Benjamin Embley

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According to Saint John, love of God and love of our neighbour belong to one and the same commandment: “And this command we have from God, that he who loves God, loves also his brother” (1 Jn 4:21). As the one love increases, so does the other… It was because the saints loved God so much that they succeeded in doing so much for their neighbour.
Saint Alphonsus Liguori

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Benjamin Embley

With backgrounds in engineering (BSc PhD) and philosophy (MA), Ben has lived and worked in England, France, and Thailand and is now back home as a settler in the unceded traditional territory of the Wabanaki peoples in Canada. He is a Laudato Si’ Animator and currently studying an MTS Peace & Justice in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

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