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Today is: Sunday 05.09.2010
Christian family
They have decided to live their lives together. They have asked for God’s blessing. And now it’s a reality—they are a married couple. Now they can look forward to the joys and labors of building a communion of love in all its dimensions: spiritual, psychological and physical. “So they are no longer two, but one” says Holy Scripture. “Man must not separate, then, what God has joined together” (Mt 19:6).
When most people talk about marital purity they have in mind the area of sexuality; they focus on the sexual act. I see this in the letters I receive from my readers. Most of the queries addressed to me about chastity deal exclusively with sexual intercourse and related matters.
Having spent two years in Italy, I have come to appreciate the value of faith. Thanks to my faith in God I now enjoy a life that is both beautiful and meaningful. In July of 2000 I came to a lovely spot called Ravello where contact with scenic nature raised me to spiritual heights.
We often speak of the need to remain “chaste before marriage.” Fostering chastity is a beautiful and altogether positive idea that contributes not only to good and productive marriages but also to the successful living out of other vocations. It stands in opposition to the dirt of this world and encourages youth to swim against the current, for only in this way can we attain the source of Love that is God (cf. John Paul II’s “Roman Triptych”).
“Gianna was a lovely woman,” says her husband, Pietro Molla. “She was beautiful, intelligent and kind. She smiled often, was elegant and distinctly modern in her outlook. She loved to hike and ski, especially in the mountains. She loved flowers, music and theater.” Nothing out of the ordinary, we might say. But there was one thing: Gianna based her entire life on her faith.
Each child conceived in a mother’s womb reveals something of the nature of our Creator’s love, a love that is all-powerful and yet at the same time meek and defenseless. Every newly conceived human being is a spark of God’s light created for the purpose of dispelling the powers of darkness, sin, and death. That is why Satan works so hard to prevent the conception of new human beings.
I am thirty-eight years old. I have been married seventeen years and have five wonderful children. When I was in my teens my idea of happiness was very different from what it is now. As with all young people I wrestled with many problems.
As I write this, I consider myself a happy person, but a few years ago I experienced some awful moments.
I am 31 years old, married, with three marvelous children. My husband has his own business and is an enterprising, hard-working man.
Man cannot create animate things. He can create a robot, but this is only a lifeless mechanism. Man cannot breathe life into the product of his hands. Only God gives life.
