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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 7th Day in Octave
DESCRIPTION:GOD’S DESIGN FOR LOVE \nFrom the writing of Pope St Paul VI \n◊◊◊ \nAs holy scripture teaches us\, before it is a sacrament marriage is a great \nearthly reality: God created man in his own image; he created him in the image \nof God: he created them man and woman. We always have to go back to that \nfirst page of the Bible if we want to understand what a human couple\, a family\, \nreally is and what it ought to be. Psychological analyses\, psychoanalytical \nresearch\, sociological surveys\, and philosophical reflection may of course have a \ncontribution to make with the light they shed on human sexuality and love; but \nthey would blind us if they neglected this fundamental teaching which was given \nto us at the very beginning: the duality of the sexes was decreed by God\, so that \ntogether man and woman might be the image of God and\, like him\, the source of \nlife: Be fruitful and increase\, fill the earth and subdue it… \nThe Christian knows that human love is good by its very origin; and if\, like \neverything else in us\, it is wounded and deformed by sin\, it finds its salvation \nand redemption in Christ. Besides\, isn’t this the lesson that twenty centuries of \nChristian history have taught us? How many couples have found the way to \nholiness in their conjugal life\, in that community of life which is the only one to \nbe founded on a sacrament! \nLove one another\, as I have loved you. The ways in which they express \ntheir affection are\, for Christian husband and wife\, full of the love which they \ndraw from the heart of God. And if its human source threatens to dry up\, its \ndivine source is as inexhaustible as the unfathomable depths of God’s affection. \nThat shows us the intimacy\, strength\, and richness of the communion which \nconjugal love aims at. It is an inward and spiritual reality\, transforming the \ncommunity of life of husband and wife into what might be called…“the domestic \nChurch”… \nSuch is the mystery in which conjugal love takes root\, and which \nilluminates all its expressions. The rapture which moves husband and wife to \nunite is the carrier of life\, and enables God to give himself children. On \nbecoming parents\, the husband and wife discover with a sense of wonder\, at the \nbaptismal font\, that their child is from now on a child of God\, reborn from \nwater and the Spirit; and that the child is entrusted to them so that they may \nwatch over its physical and moral growth\, certainly\, but also the opening out \nand blossoming in him of the new nature. Such a child is no longer just what \nthey see\, but just as much what they believe\, “an infinity of mystery and love \nwhich would dazzle us if we say it face to face”… Therefore [the] upbringing [of \nchildren] becomes true service of Christ\, according to his own saying: whatever \nyou do for one of these little ones\, you do for me.
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