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Welcome back to our series on How to Love Your Enemies.  Today Father Dave and Rick focus on some important points, a few of which are below:

• How we are to love everyone as God loves everyone
• It's easy to love humanity in the abstract; it's much harder to love individuals
•  Your enemies are really just enemies of themselves; not you
• Egoism is at the root of almost every sin, but self-love is still important; it's a balance; It's a reliance on grace
• Rick's description of Angels

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Welcome to our 200th episode of Casting the Net!  

It's been an honor to bring this show to you each week. We appreciate the feedback and support to our show and look forward to continuing on for many more!

In today's show, we continue the series on How To Love Your Enemies, with a particular focus on:

• Why we should strive for a readiness to help and assist, and why it needs to be more than just a kind thought
• Understanding what God values
• Why we need divine assistance
• And much more...

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Welcome to Part IV in our series on How To Love Your Enemies.  

Today is a more practical turn in the series, giving a more broad insight into the topic which is helpful for all of us.  A few highlights include:

• If you've been baptized then you already have the gifts you need
• You can't fight fire with fire
• And more...

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Welcome to Part III in our series on How To Love Your Enemies.  

Today's highlights include:

• How the act of mercy is helping someone identify who they really are
• The importance of loving people who seem unlovable, even momentarily
• Cancel Culture
• And more...

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Welcome to our second episode in our series on How To Love Your Enemies.

Today is a very important episode as Father Dave and Rick point out, simply because this is such an important topic. Below are some highlights from their conversation:

• Our challenges today are part of the human experience
• We should not be interested in "what would Jesus do"...but rather "what did Jesus do?"
• What the cross stands for
• The sacramental approach to this topic
• We have to want to grow into loving our enemies
• Hate is the activity of Hell

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Today we kickoff a new series with a candid discussion on how to love your enemies. It's a conversation that might make you think about this concept in a slightly different way, including:

• The question: What's the hardest thing about Christianity?
• What the cross stands for, from a couple different perspectives
• How would the Resurrection play out if it were a Hollywood movie, versus how it actually happened? 
• How to love your enemies and those whom you may not think are lovable
• Imitating Jesus in times of hardship
• Importance of Mercy

And much more...

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Welcome to the final episode in our series on Lent.  Father Dave and Rick do a great job recapping the season, with some great highlights.

• Reflecting on the importance of Easter
• Why we continue celebrating Easter
•  As Paul says in First Corinthians, If Christ hasn't risen from the dead, then your faith is in vain because you're still in your sins
• Very strong statement about the reality of the Resurrection
• Don't worry about complexities; just hold fast to the testimony who claim Jesus is risen
• How to live brave and without fear; death is not the end!
• Allowing ourselves to be transformed in the reality of the Resurrection
• Importance of starting your day with prayer and ending with reflection 

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Welcome back to the final episode in our series on Lent.  Today Father Dave and Rick talk in detail about some important topics as we begin to wrap up the Lenten season...

• How Christ's entire existence brings about our salvation
• Fear as it applies to Lent
• The meaning of Divine Condescension
• How we should permit these last days of Lent to be holy, to be set apart and distinguishable from the rest of the year

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Welcome back for the 6th episode in our series on Lent.  Today Father Dave and Rick cover some important ground, including:

• Understanding that Lent is a time for rooting out egoism and making it less about "me"
• Remembering that Lent is always about change
• The Theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Love
• And finally, the fact that if your Lent has been lousy, start today!

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Today we continue our series on Lent with a focus on the last few Gospels, in particular:

• The concept of not allowing convenience to prevent God from speaking to us
• The 7 Days of Creation
• Understanding the recurring themes in these Lenten Gospels
• Definition of martyrdom and giving witness to God's works

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