25. In this stage of
remote preparation some specific objectives should be achieved. Without
pretending to make a complete list of them, as an indication it is noted that
above all this preparation should attain the goal whereby every member of the
faithful called to marriage will understand completely that, in the light of
God's love, human love takes on a central role in Christian ethics. In fact, as
a vocation and mission, human life is called to the love that has its source
and end in God, "without excluding the possibility of the total gift of
self to God in the vocation to the priestly or religious life" (FC
66). In this sense, it should be recalled that even when remote preparation
deals more with doctrinal content of an anthropological nature, it is to be placed
in the perspective of marriage in which human love becomes a sharing, as well
as a sign, of the love between Christ and the Church. Therefore, married love
makes present among mankind the same divine love made visible in the
redemption. The journey or conversion from a rather external and vague level of
faith, typical of many young people, to a discovery of the "Christian
mystery" is both essential and decisive: a faith that involves the
communion of Grace and love with the Risen Christ.
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