Welcome to daily Rosary meditations with Dr. Mike Schurselik, where you learn how to meditate and establish a daily habit of prayer while discovering the truths of the Catholic faith. Is there someone you know that could benefit from daily prayer?

Share this meditation with them. them. Welcome to episode 7 in our series of meditations on God's plan for human love.

So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the

Holy Spirit. Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Remember the love of God is free and unconditional, it's permanent and indesiable, and it's ordered to new life,

and we were designed to love like God so that we could become like God.

And the marriage vow expresses this love of God.

Now the world wants to believe an unconditional love and the Catholic Church doesn't go around forcing lovers to buy each other diamonds.

The Catholic Church isn't the one demanding that lovers

carve their initials in trees, lovers do that on their own.

Because the longing, the hope, and the need for unconditional love is indelibly stamped on the human soul.

God put it there.

Everyone wants to say I will love you forever and everyone wants to

hear I will love you forever. The church is the one and really the only one who says not just that our body's

longings are natural but also that our soul's longings are natural. The reason that husband and wife are called to love one another

unconditionally till death is because God loves us unconditionally and we were made to love like God.

Our father who art in heaven,

hallow would be your name,

thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil

amen. Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with the blessed art thou among women

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