Saturday, November 9, 2013

Freedom In Marital Fidelity

The preparatory document for the 2014 Synod of Bishops on the Family was released earlier this week, and it includes some beautiful guidance from our beloved Holy Father, Blessed John Paul II. This quote was taken from his Familiaris Consortio:

The only ‘place’ in which this self-giving in its whole truth is made possible is marriage, the covenant of conjugal love freely and consciously chosen, whereby man and woman accept the intimate community of life and love willed by God himself (cf. Gaudium et spes, 48) which only in this light manifests its true meaning. The institution of marriage is not an undue interference by society or authority, nor the extrinsic imposition of a form. Rather it is an interior requirement of the covenant of conjugal love which is publicly affirmed as unique and exclusive, in order to live in complete fidelity to the plan of God, the Creator. A person's freedom, far from being restricted by this fidelity, is secured against every form of subjectivism or relativism and is made a sharer in creative Wisdom.

Blessed John Paul II, please pray today for all married couples and those preparing for marriage, that they may be given grace enough to embrace the “intimate community of life and love willed by God himself.”

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