Love and Marriage

Before Life, there was Love. And Love so abundant that God (omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and utterly self-sufficient) would reach out and create for Himself companions simply to Love. That we would love Him in return is His greatest joy.

So great is His joy in our love that He creates in us a need for love so that we too will know this joy. So great is this need that it can be ultimately fulfilled only by the Love of the Father Himself. And yet, He creates in us the need to love other humans as well.

The most precious gift of human love that He bestows upon us is the gift of marriage. It is a masterpiece portrait of the love that Christ poured out for for the Church. It is a perfect model to the rest of the world of the way all relationships should work: give and take, respect and support, honor and love, interdependency. It is the strong foundation of society and the fertile soil for raising more holy warriors for the Kingdom of God.

And yet, perhaps, above all this it is most simply, most beautifully, a gift from God for one man and one woman to give them great joy and fulfillment for the rest of their lives. At the core of all that He is, our God is, after all, Love.