You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of love, loyalty, and honesty in marriage, encouraging a lifelong commitment to these values.
In this quote, Pope John Paul II highlights the sacred vows exchanged during a wedding ceremony, emphasizing that love, loyalty, and matrimonial honesty should not only be spoken but serve as guiding principles throughout one's life. He underscores the role of divine grace in upholding these vows, suggesting that a spiritual foundation is essential for a successful and fulfilling marriage.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a wedding ceremony to emphasize the importance of the vows being made.
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the Son who is given to us - we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails - the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of this town: Bethlehem, the house of bread. God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life
And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.
If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.
What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.
It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious
What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
But the knowledge and love of our Divine Redeemer, of which we were the object from the first moment of His Incarnation, exceed all that the human intellect can hope to grasp. For hardly was He conceived in the womb of the Mother of God, when He began to enjoy the Beatific Vision, and in that vision all the members of His Mystical Body were continually and unceasingly present to Him, and He embraced them with His redeeming love
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