FOR THE HUMAN AND FOR THE ETERNAL: THE LOVE THAT GENERATES

Anna Chiara and Gigi De Palo, De Palo family; Gabriella Gambino, Undersecretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life; Fabrice Hadjadj, philosopher and writer; Mónica Santamarina, president of UMOFC (World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations). Introduced by Luca Sommacal, president of Famiglie per l’Accoglienza

Can one live with enthusiasm the risk and bold challenge of sharing one’s life with someone, building a family, and bringing forth life? Pope Leo reminded us that marriage is not an ideal, but the standard of true love between man and woman: total, faithful, fruitful love. Love that generates, because we all live thanks to a relationship, that is, to a free and liberating bond of humanity and mutual care. Today’s world needs the conjugal alliance in order to know and welcome the love of God and to overcome, with its unifying and reconciling power, the forces that break apart relationships and societies, so that our humanity may bloom again. Love lived in a wholly gratuitous embrace of the other and of their difference, in recognition of their high and infinite value, love that carries a spark of God’s love. For the eternal. Ten years after the apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia”, talks and testimonies on the joy and beauty that arise from living the matrimonial vocation decisively.