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Catechetical Sunday article by Bishop Flores on the Sacrament of Marriage (2010)
Catechetical Sunday, September 19, 2010
Marriage: Sacrament of Enduring Love by Most Reverend Daniel Flores, Bishop of Brownsville, Texas
"The Grandeur of the Christian Vocation - The Second Vatican Council, and later Pope John Paul II, expressed in marvelous terms Catholic teaching about the identity and mission of the Lord Jesus Christ: “Christ the new Adam, in the very revelation of the mystery of the Father and of his love, fully reveals man to himself and brings to light his most high calling.” The Son of God who was made flesh sought to reveal one principal thing about our most high calling, the sublimity of our vocation: we are called to love in truth, to love in a way that participates in and reflects the love of the Father.
Everyone desires to love and to be loved. However, sin has caused in us a kind of loss of memory, a forgetfulness about the dimensions of that divine love which God desires to be the cause of our joy. Beholding the person and mission of the Lord Jesus, we can recapture our sense of who we are and to what dignity of love we are called. This teaching can help guide our meditation on the Sacrament of Marriage."