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The Good News for Couples: Pope Paul VI Addressing the Teams of Our Lady May 4, 1970
by CANFP
The journey undertaken by husbands and wives,
like every human life, has many stages;
and, as you know from your experience over the years,
it also includes difficult and painful periods.
But this must be said loudly:
anguish and fear should never be the lot
of persons of good will, since, after all,
is not the Gospel good news also for husbands and wives?
And for all the demands it makes,
is it not a profoundly liberating message?
It is naturally distressful to realize
that one has not yet achieved interior freedom,
that one is still subject to the impulse of instinct.
It is distressful to discover oneself almost incapable
at a particular moment
of respecting the moral law
in such a fundamental area.
Yet this is a decisive moment
when the Christian in his confusion,
instead of giving way
to sterile and destructive feelings of rebellion,
makes his way humbly to the staggering discovery
of what it means to be a man before God,
a sinner before the love of Christ the Savior.
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