11/8/2022 0 Comments Divine truth about soulmates![]() Dear married couples, the presence of so many of you and your children fills my heart with emotion. ![]() When its members seal themselves off in a sort of group selfishness, they automatically deprive themselves of the opportunity to grow in love and thus to experience true joy.Ĥ. DIVINE TRUTH ABOUT SOULMATES FULLThe family does not live its vocation to the full if it is not open to the needs of the community. ![]() Love drawn from God's heart spurs the whole family to find the time to attend to the elderly, to devote themselves to the sick, to be involved in the difficult situations around them, including regional problems and the more general problems of the nation. In turn, the children will find in love the deepest motivation for a responsible, docile and grateful attitude towards their parents. By virtue of love the parents will be able to devote their best energies to the work of bringing up their children, assuring them of consistent guidance and surrounding them with caring and respectful affection. Such therefore should be the love of a couple and the relationship between the members of a family. The biblical text continues: "In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us" (1 Jn 4:10). When a couple refuses to collaborate with God to transmit the gift of life, they have great difficulty in finding in themselves the resources to sustain mutual understanding.ģ. Is there not a link between the demographic decline and the alarming phenomenon of a considerable number of couples between whom love so easily withers and dies?ĭear married couples, do not be afraid! You are living the greatness of love animated by the generous desire to see it spread and virtually incarnated in the faces of your children. "You are everything to me, I give myself totally to you, for ever": this is the commitment that springs from the heart of every person who is sincerely in love.įidelity! Next to this comes fruitfulness, another typical aspect of the relationship between spouses. In this perspective, the duty of conjugal fidelity can be fully grasped. Authentic human love reflects within itself the logic of the divine. In a certain sense, it means forgetting oneself for the good of others. It means emptying oneself to reach out to others. "In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him" (1 Jn 4:9). Appropriately, the biblical passage just proclaimed is, in two instances, concerned with clarifying the true meaning of love.Ģ. Often, unfortunately, in the hedonistic culture we experience today, it is rather its caricature and even its betrayal that are labeled with the name of love. ![]() Obviously this implies that it is genuine love. The love experienced within the family offers a favourable climate where that personal relationship with God which is the source of authentic individual and community renewal can take root and develop. How urgent then is the task of believers, above all of Christian families, to restore to today's society the necessary anchoring of faith and love in the safe haven of God's word. The many sad aspects of our time and the unprecedented forms of violence that unfortunately mark it are ultimately explained by the closure of hearts to God's love. The Church and the world today more than ever need married couples and families who generously let themselves be schooled by Christ. You are aiming at strengthening your links with Christ, deepening his message by paying special attention to "the Gospel of marriage." ![]() I also greet the married couples who, on your behalf, have expressed sentiments of devoted affection to me, explaining the interesting pastoral enterprise in which you are involved. I greet dear Bishop Severino Poletto, your dynamic Pastor, and I thank him for the words he has addressed to me. I am even more delighted to be doing so in the company of Cardinal Angelo Sodano, an illustrious son of your land. It gives me great joy to meet you in this cathedral, where you frequently gather with your Bishop and priests for the Married Couples' Mission in which you are involved, and which will end at Pentecost next year. Given on 25 September 1993 in Asti, Italyġ. ![]()
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