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Miguel Ortega de la Fuente
Professor of Spanish Language in Journalism
"Francisco de Vitoria" University

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Being in love - being together, being faithful, having a child, giving the best of what we are, loving each other as well as possible - can only be a reality today and tomorrow if we both turn "this love which happens, but which may evaporate" into "a faithful, indissoluble union, a bond which can preserve, protect and regenerate our love for the whole of our life". Our marriage vows should bring about this transformation. Two people become one. They come to form a unique union, a single "we", an intimate union in which love and the works of love are a mutual right and duty. Anything less than this is an empty ceremony.


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 which only in this light manifests its true meaning.

John Paul II, Familiaris consortio, 22 November 1981, no. 11.

 
Commentary

Only in this light can we understand the following parable. After the honeymoon, they both went back to work. On the first day, she got home first and waited anxiously for him. In the end, he came home, looking forward to seeing her. He rang the bell, and her voice sounded: "Who is it?" "It's me, your husband. Open the door." "Who is it?" she asked again. "It's me, Tony, your husband. Open the door, my love." But again, she asked "Who is it?"  In his confusion, Tony looked down at his hand. When he saw his wedding ring, he understood at once. "It's you,"  he said. And then, she opened the door.

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