ON HUMAN LIFE ( Part 2 )

Married Love.  Part 2

...It is a love which is total - that very special form of personal friendship in which husband and wife generously share everything, allowing no unreasonable exceptions and not thinking solely of their own convenience. Whoever really loves his partner loves not only for what he receives, but loves that partner for the partner's own sake , content to be able to enrich the other with the gift of himself.

Married love is also faithful and exclusive of all other , and this until death. This is how husband and wife understood it on the day on which,fully aware of what they were doing,they freely vowed themselves to one another in marriage. Though this fidelity of husband and wife sometimes presents difficulties,no one has the right to assert that it is impossible; it is on the contrary, always honorable and meritorious.

The example of countless married couples proves not only that fidelity is in accord with the nature of marriage,but also that it is the source of profound and enduring happiness.

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( Humanae Vitae- Paul VI, Pauline's Pub, no.9)

Rev. Dcn. Nyonje

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