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No Room for Hatred: A Homily on Love, Forgiveness, and Our Guardian Angels
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What the video says
A priest's homily about God's constant presence, our guardian angels, and the devil's influence, emphasizing that we cannot claim to love God while holding grudges, anger, or judgment against others. He laments that wars and suffering in the world stem from lost love of God and neighbor, and urges listeners to forgive, listen to their guardian angels, and become children of love rather than judgment. He closes with a childhood memory about free will and a call to change our hearts.
Key moments
- God is always with us and never leaves us; our guardian angel is likewise always present, while the devil wants to be with us but it is up to us whether he is.
- Anger, grudges, and judgment toward others are actually toward God, because we are commanded to show love to our brothers and sisters.
- Cutting off others in anger cuts God off from our life and ourselves from Him; guardian angels constantly remind us to be kind and gentle.
- God still protects us despite our failures; without love we cannot live rightly or ever know God.
- Wars around the world exist because people love themselves, money, power, and control, having lost God, brotherhood, and peace.
- A priest's difficult counseling task is with spouses who battle each other because they forgot who made and loves them, and the Lord's teaching that failing to love one's brother means not loving Him.
- He begs listeners to kneel and ask forgiveness for holding grudges; forgiveness doesn't mean agreeing with everyone, but it does mean forgiving and reaching out.
- When we die we will meet our guardian angel; there is no room in the heart for hatred, only love, which brings peace; he recalls a school lesson that God gave us free will so we could love, though we can also choose to hate and judge.
This post features a priest's homily centered on God's constant presence, the ministry of guardian angels, and the incompatibility of hatred with the Christian life. The priest begins with the assurance that God never leaves us and that our guardian angel is always at our side, while the devil's presence in our lives depends on our own choices.
From this foundation he develops his central theme: we cannot claim to love God while holding grudges, anger, or judgment against others, since anger directed at our brothers and sisters is ultimately directed at God Himself. Cutting someone off in anger, he warns, cuts God out of our life as well. He connects the world's suffering to the loss of love, arguing that wars persist because people have come to love themselves, money, power, and control more than God and neighbor.
Drawing on pastoral experience, he describes the difficulty of counseling spouses who battle one another because they have forgotten who made them and who loves them. The homily closes with a direct appeal: kneel and ask forgiveness for the grudges we hold. Forgiveness, he clarifies, does not mean agreeing with everyone, but it does mean forgiving and reaching out.
He reminds listeners that at death they will meet their guardian angel, and that the heart has no room for hatred—only love, which brings peace. A childhood memory about free will underscores the point: God gave us free will precisely so that we could love, though we can also choose to hate and judge. The overall call is to change our hearts and become children of love rather than judgment.
Main points
- God and our guardian angel are always with us; whether the devil remains near depends on our own choices.
- Anger, grudges, and judgment toward others are directed at God, who commands love for our brothers and sisters.
- Wars stem from people loving self, money, and power while losing God, brotherhood, and peace.
- Forgiveness does not mean agreeing with everyone, but it does mean forgiving and reaching out.
- Free will was given so we could love; the heart has room only for love, which brings peace.