"In this way the love of God was revealed to us God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him" (1 Jn 4:9).

Here is love at its source. Love is the gift of self. It means emptying oneself to reach out to others. In a certain sense, it means forgetting oneself for the good of others. Authentic human love reflects within itself the logic of the divine. In this perspective, the duty of conjugal fidelity can be fully grasped.

"You are everything to me, I give myself totally to you, for ever" : this is the commitment that springs from the heart of every person who is sincerely in love.

TRUE HUMAN LOVE REFLECTS THE DIVINE
Pope John Paul II
Asti, Italy
September 25, 1993