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Speaker 1: Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaining. As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God's varied grace.

Speaker 2: You are listening to Scripture for your inner outcasts. Today is May 29th, 2026, Friday of the eighth week in Ordinary Time. Today we are joined by Bridget Adams, the member Care coordinator for the Resilient Catholics community, a lead writer and trainer on the Pathfinder Pro team and a retreat leader for Souls and Hearts.

Speaker 1: Hello to everyone joining our episode today. It's a joy to be in this together with all of our hearts and our innermost selves. I'm curious how this scripture passage from our first reading today lands with you. X out parts first Peter four, verses eight through ten. Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaining. As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God's varied grace. This idea of an intense love for one another. Can you imagine becoming more and more loved within yourself system? Can you imagine being invited into the loving with all the other parts and your innermost self? What would that be like for you to be free in sharing the loving instead of hidden and silenced? An all encompassing, intense, and authentic love is part of God's plan for you, each and every one of you exiled parts. And as a bonus gift from God. This type of intense, loving covers up our sins and brings God's mercy upon us. To you protector parts. I have an idea to ponder. What would it be like to be hospitable with other parts in your system? Perhaps especially the exiled parts who are longing for love. Could you protect your parts? Step back from complaining and grumbling about the very youngest parts in your system. Would you be willing to try loving your exiled parts? You've been protecting them. That's true. And you've used the best means known to you at your stage of development. But as you grow to trust that you have an innermost self, can you also grow to trust that each and every part has received a gift from God. Every part has a particular gift received from God. And with interior integration, all of those gifts can bless your relationships. Internally, externally and eternally. Maybe intense loving seems a little too intense for right now, but could it be something to pray for and aim for in your ongoing human formation?

Speaker 2: Listeners are invited to learn more about the innermost self, which was mentioned in today's episode by checking out our sister podcast, Interior Integration for Catholics episode 158.

Speaker 1: Our lady, our mother Untier of knots. Pray for us. Saint Joseph, pray for us. Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.