We start from
the importance of the family as a vital cell of society. And the family is a
community of love, since this is its vital engine. Love, not in a poetic sense,
but in a unitive and dynamic function between human beings.
If there is
something that can explain a man's actions, his union with other people, and
consequently, the entire family cycle that begins with marriage, that something
is love.
Love is the
principle and creative source, because man was created by love and for love.
All manifestations of the human being make this tendency evident: love is what
identifies the person, the capacity to love is exclusive to the human being.
The bond between
people must be love, the inner principle, the permanent strength and the
ultimate goal to live, grow and perfect oneself.
This might seem
like an ideal or very utopian position in the turbulent times in which we live;
However, it is also very important to remember that although love is the engine
that drives the union of man and woman in marriage, and therefore, the birth of
a family, it is the will, the mutual consent of the man and woman, above all.
What marriage is founded, establishing a bond?
To really love
you have to know what love is. As we discover its depth, we will grow more in
the capacity to love. It is dynamic, as it covers different stages, it is
expressed in all areas of the human personality and throughout our entire life.
It is essential,
since it constitutes the principle, the idea by which man was created and the
end for which he exists. This will be the activity of man for all eternity
(“Now faith and hope are present, but in the end only love will exist”).
Love is the only
reason that justifies the existence of each and every one. The entire universe
was created by love. Love is the supreme act of freedom, the truly human
activity by which a person chooses and realizes the good of another.
