Sanctifying Human Love

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🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this podcast, part of our Day of Recollection resources for the month of September, Fr. Peter Armenio shares a meditation on the sanctification of human love as witnessed through the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. This gift of sacrificial love encourages us to look inward and reflect upon the opportunity to be a witness to the love of Christ is our daily life. Through the grace made present to us in the sacraments, we are strengthened to lay down our life for one another and inspired to...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:05.3	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:13.3	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:16.6	I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:24.4	My immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my father, and Lord, my guardian angel,
0:30.1	and deceit for me.
0:34.6	In this time of conversation with Jesus Christ and through Christ, our conversation is addressed
0:43.8	to God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. We go through the humanity of Jesus.
0:52.1	And I begin this way, since our theme of conversation is sanctifying human love.
1:04.1	And let's focus on the love between husband and wife, since the great majority of the population revealed by Genesis,
1:24.5	Genesis narrates the creation of the first man and the first woman.
1:30.3	And immediately after the narrative of the creation of women,
1:36.5	God institutes a sanctification of human love
1:42.6	and specifying a very special holy human love that we call marriage.
1:52.0	And he reveals and that revelation still holds that this love between a husband and wife
2:05.5	is the highest form of human love.
2:15.3	Why is that?
2:18.3	Well, because it's a love that is meant to reflect the very love of God.
2:29.0	And for that reason, God mandated that the husband and wife leave mother and father and cleave to each other, become one flesh.
2:48.7	Physically, emotionally, in terms of friendship, in terms of pursuit of Christ, that they be intimately
3:03.4	united on many fronts, united as persons.
3:12.1	God is not telling them that you can't have your mother-in-law live with you.
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