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#147: Marriage..."When the Flame has Grown Cold"

The German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, identified very keenly this drama in loving relationships, sensing that ending up in this spiral cannot be the only way out. "This is the paradox of love between man and woman: two infinities meet two limitations, two infinite needs to be loved meet two fragile and limited capacities to love.  Only in the ambit of a greater love (God's love for them) do they not consume themselves in pretension and not resign themselves, but walk together, each towards a fullness of which they are a sign...

...If you do not love Christ, Beauty made flesh, more than the person you love, the latter relationship withers. Christ is the truth of this relationship, the fullness to which both partners point, and in whom their relationship is fulfilled. Only by letting Him in is it possible for the most beautiful relationship that can happen in life not to be corrupted and die in time. This is the audacity of His claim."

Indeed, the Lord Jesus, when He prayed to the Father, "that all may be one...as we are one" (Jn 17:21-22) opened up vistas closed to human reason, for He implied a certain likeness between the union of the divine Persons, and the unity of God's sons in truth and charity.  This likeness reveals that man, who is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself, cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself. (Gaudium et Specs 24:3)

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