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EspañolGetting married is not an ending but a beginning. Love renews the ordinary, and every day may become a creative, unprecedented, fascinating scenario. It can be a new blank page to write on, an open opportunity. Those who love each other are not trapped in the past, buried in their routines or mistakes. Love gives them the power to be reborn again and again. To love is to gain a new future.
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“Another great challenge of marriage preparation is to help couples realize that marriage is not something that happens once for all.” (The Joy of Love, n.218)
Commentary
Founding a marriage is the starting point. It is a new story written on an unprecedented, new notebook, full of blank pages. The authors are both spouses, together, using the ink of daily events, with blood, with sacrifice, with joys, with sorrows, with effort, with the achievement of goals. And it is communicated to their children and the following generations.
It is also a partnership that changes history if one looks at it correctly. That is why every marriage if it perseveres, is a contribution to the history of salvation and better humanity. It is to unlock a chain through our children that can remain alive until the end of time.
In the formula of matrimonial consent, the bride and groom decide to surrender and embrace all they are, with no restrictions, for life. It is the act of freedom and giving love par excellence in which together they commit their future to what is yet unknown, albeit with a particular fear but also joy and the desire that their love will overcome any misfortune and adversities. Loving each other can harvest a greater union and strength even from the “bad times.” Loving is a whole pedagogy of human existence.
