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Commentary
We have been created through love, and for love, teaches the Church. Therefore, it is understood that our whole life – from the moment we are born – is oriented to love more and better. St. John of the Cross, in one of his Spiritual Considerations, rightly points out that in the evening of our life, we will be examined on love. It will be the only relevant question. St. Augustine said, our weight is measured on the scale of love.
Although it is evident that we are always ourselves throughout time, we do not love the same when we are children, adolescents, mature adults, or older. Love is constant learning embodied in different ways as time goes by.
What good envy is produced by those grandparents who look at each other tenderly with eyes that no longer have the sparkle of their youth, who touch each other awkwardly but lovingly, with hands worn out by the years, and who smile slightly and move slowly … How much can be learned from such a love! Every life has been prepared for this culminating moment: that of a truly successful life.
