Friends… forever

Monseigneur Giampaolo Dianin, bishop

You cannot say “I love you” without adding that “forever” that is not a social formality or a legacy of strict ancient times, but specifies the quality and substance of love. Our commentary on Chapter IV of Amoris laetitia continues and after having spoken of conjugal charity and conjugal friendship, we now take into consideration what distinguishes the bond of two true friends from the conjugal pact. Pope Francis speaks of this in numbers 123-125 of his Apostolic Exhortation. Marriage, as the Pope writes, is the greatest friendship because it contains the characteristics of this relationship, but at the same time overcomes them and transforms them into a new and unique reality. A friend seeks the good of the other and is reciprocated, the interests and affection that binds them become more important, there is complicity and mutual esteem. Marriage places all this within a love relationship that involves the body and the spirit, is based on a pact that has as its object the sharing of the whole of existence to achieve together a stable project of life.

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