What is the job definition of a true friend

Seems I've had writer's block and Eileen pulled me out of it with her question in the title.

."you shall love the lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul; and you shall love your neighbor as yourself. This statement has taken a beating by the world, by pop-psychologists who try to frame it in the lexicon of co-dependency. Jesus was co-dependent; therefore I take it as a compliment when it is applied to ... me. First we have the example of the good Samaritan. A complete stranger and an outcast among the Jews even the one he helped. Then we have Matt 25:31-46. Then we have the example of Jesus himself, who gave up his life, being fully human and fully God fully each not half and half, He willed to do this, so that He could found His church and prove the reality of eternal life by his Resurrection. There is no greater act of friendship. For the secularists out there who need this sort of thing, the Resurrection is documented in the texts of the state of Rome, i.e., Pilot kept records. The tomb was guarded and empty.

As Catholics we are to be the salt of the earth; it is as you know and have demonstrated in your own life, it is more important to be a true friend than to have true friends. For we know the truth that this epoch that we are living in the "End times", that time between the Resurrection and the second coming and just subsequent to the previous "... Read Moremessianic" epoch, when Jesus walked the earth end founded His church; that the enemy holds sway over the world. we also know the outcome. On my way to Mass more upon my return.

It is difficult to have true friends in the world, for, outside of the kingdom of God/Heaven on earth (and even inside for some, but Jesus said let the tares grow among the wheat) different standards are used. In another words, the world has different standards for friendship -- I help you you help me, one hand washes the other "take care of your ...self" , ie, "look out for number one."As Catholics we put the well being of others ahead of ourselves. Not perfectly by any means, but this is the standard from the one who commanded us to love even our enemies.

Oddly, today's Gospel reading is about the blind leading the blind. So, a true friend will tell you hey, you're headed for a pit, walk around it with me. and then they will wait for you to climb out and reach down to pull you out no matter how long it takes.

A true friend will give up 10% of their life savings to help another even when they know they are being conned. A true friend will tell you that this is not a good idea, and warn you that you are being conned, while at the same time admiring your heart and generosity.

A true friend will tell you the truth, and even risk the friendship to do so, particularly if he thinks you're headed for a pit, or in danger -- body and/or soul.

A true friend will not always be there -- there is only one God.

A true friend will hurt your feelings -- there is only one God.

A true friend will often make mistakes, and often promote ideas that seem in the short term not to be to our benefit, but takes a long view on your behalf.

A true friend will warn you of false friends -- not out of selfishness, or control -- but out of a genuine concern for your well being.

A true friend will listen to your opinion, in the true sense of that word -- a conclusion drawn from an understanding of the facts not the metaphorical way the term is used these days ie a political point of view based on emotion or ignorance of the facts -- and admire you opinion even if it is not his own. A true friend will sometimes change his opinion based on yours, ie, he Can admit he was wrong. A true friend Will also hold fast to an opinion if he believes it to be right. A true friend will not always agree with you, and will often give up his own desires to fulfill those of a friend.

True friends are more valuable than gold and just as rare. In my own life I see 5 that I've had, and maybe now 7. We will see.There was a time when I had three, and considered myself extremely fortunate. They always knew where I was Physically and emotionally and cared, and told me the truth even when it hurt my feelings, and stuck with me even when I disagreed.

Two of them left the circle, and one died. She committed an assisted suicide in Oregon rather than have faith and die with the dignity that God provides. She got in with those, who did not care about her (a group called Christ Unity, but has nothing to do with Christ) and supported indeed egged her on in this. So, I think you can see where that group is coming from.

She felt her life was her own, rather than acknowledging her creation. And yet, she hedged her bet, having been brought up Catholic she asked me to pray for her before the end and after, and that I do. I can only hope she reached out at that last moment, but we know this is a rare grace to have the presence of mind to at the last moment make an act of contrition. And so I pray for her an urge others to pray for her and others like her.

Christ Unity Church?

From what I can see, they lead people from the truth to their eternal demise, and that that is their purpose. I've known several people who go there, and I have been to services. There is a certain amount of pseudo intellectualism, and this has a certain appeal to those who never knew or have felt that they have been harmed by God's Church. But I have watched them descend on and lead souls straight, surely, and quickly to their damnation. They are an abomination they call Jesus the master or at least they use that phrase "the master" and then quote or rather misinterpret the Gospel. They are truly wolves in sheep's clothing. their motto "one God many paths" is in direct contradiction to Jesus's admonition to "enter by the narrow gate" -- the Catholic Church. "For the road to perdition is wide and roomy."

Farther Paul G. is my friend, even though he has gone to the valley to pastor his own parish, and I miss getting together with him.

You Eileen are my true friend I love cherish, admire, and am frustrated by you. and I long for nothing more than to BE with you. There are a couple of more from the past, who I have perhaps discounted. And there may be others, who I may have perhaps discounted.

But no, true friends cannot be described in a job description, if they were to be described that way they would come under that part ... "and all other duties associated with the position as necessary."