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Archbishop Aguer: True Friendship Cannot Exist Without Virtue and Love – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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+ Héctor Aguer, Archbishop Emeritus of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Tuesday, July 22, 2025, Feast of St. Mary Magdalene

Personal encounter is the key to the exercise of friendship. This is what is missing in so-called ‘virtual friendships,’ which are temporary, circumstantial realities.

(LifeSiteNews) — Here in Argentina July 20th has been celebrated as Friendship Day for some years now. The initiative was born of Masonic inspiration, in the name of “universal brotherhood” and in recognition of man’s arrival on the moon on that date in 1969. In reality Friendship Day should be celebrated on January 2nd, which commemorates St. Basil and St. Gregory of Nazianzus, who studied together in Athens and shared a deep friendship in the Lord.

The current phenomenon of social media is multiplying cases of “virtual” friendships—that is, not real, not true. Greek and Roman philosophers understood and explained the profoundly human nature of friendship. Aristotle, in his Nicomachean Ethics, dedicated a chapter to friendship that has been the source of many subsequent treatises. Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote a short book called De amicitia in which he expresses that “true friendship is based on virtue, since only the virtuous can love one another selflessly, without seeking profit or pleasure.” …

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