“Love as I have loved”

Wedding Reflection

This statement of Jesus will be the pattern and standard of your love as a married couple. “Love as I have loved”.

“TO LOVE” What is the meaning of “to love”? Love is often an abuse word. Why? Because, we don’t really understand the meaning of word- love.   It is “lip service” only no actions just only saying a word. Basically, it means to give oneself to the other, to be constantly outside oneself, in order to live the other and to live for the other. In short it is, living the other and for the other.

That is why in married life, means mutual love, essentially is mutual self-giving, in order to become one.

He lives and you live with him. "Communion". The object of love is communion. The lover and the beloved become one.

Love is not only a simple “sentimental love”. Love should be an “active/dynamic love. You do not say love! You do it! Like Christ, The Cross is His most realistic symbol of love. It is the symbol of His total self-giving, of His self-emptying.

          “Love as I have loved” – How do Jesus love us? He has not only loved us, he has loved us more than himself, without measure.

          In this wedding, the same love is expected from you both, to love each other more than themselves without measuring. Because love does not count what it gives.