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1 1 | ever more disconnected from love and ever more an expression
2 1 | sexuality, directed by and to love and managed~with responsibility (“
3 2,1| is a space that only the love of God can fill, or there
4 2,1| origin and end of every love; that every time a being
5 2,1| is present there, because love is always love of God (just
6 2,1| because love is always love of God (just as every desire
7 2,1| is God who has invented love, or rather, God is love.
8 2,1| love, or rather, God is love. And so, every earthly affection
9 2,1| some way for God and divine love, to leave center place to
10 2,1| saying that divine and human love are not in conflict to the
11 2,1| contrary, God saves the love of man, to the point that
12 2,1| to the point that human love, even at its happiest, conjugal
13 2,1| between friends, is more love to the extent that it is
14 2,1| completely the other’s thirst for love nor be satiated by the other,
15 2,1| to the human thirst for love. And if man really wants
16 2,1| And if man really wants to love another human much and forever,
17 2,1| forever, he must welcome God’s love in himself, in order to
18 2,1| himself be loved by Him and to love Him. And thus, rediscover
19 2,2| with little joy and little love, making it unattractive;
20 3,1| do, in face of the great love received. As if to say:
21 3,1| have been loved and able to love), surely there could also
22 3,1| self-giving and sacrificial love, but it is also the maximum
23 3,1| the young person. So that love is not presented in a contradictory
24 3,2| symbol and icon of virginal love, because the cross is the
25 3,2| the maximum fullness of love, human and divine, for God
26 3,2| of the highest level of love received and given, of love
27 3,2| love received and given, of love crucified and already risen
28 3,2| person who chooses virginal love must be disposed to have
29 3,2| at the same time, to give love, take the initiative, make
30 3,2| make the first step, and love those who are not lovable… “
31 3,2| as a cross…road. Virginal love is fundamentally Paschal
32 3,2| is fundamentally Paschal love, crucified-risen; therefore
33 3,2| to that visceral need for love that the young person carries
34 3,2| any gesture of love, from the smallest to the
35 3,2| is always preceded by a love received (Jesus would never
36 3,2| been sure of his Father’s love, even though on the cross
37 3,2| but in every case love cannot choose half-measures:
38 3,2| greatest sign of the greatest love;~- and therefore,
39 3,2| self, is a natural part of love: one who loves, in short,
40 3,2| and this very death makes love fruitful, makes it enter
41 3,2| of Jesus was salvation. Love crucified and risen thus
42 3,2| of sexuality. But it is love which has an intrinsic Paschal
43 3,2| capable of hosting divine love.~ ~3.2.2- Paschal love and
44 3,2| divine love.~ ~3.2.2- Paschal love and virginal love~All of
45 3,2| Paschal love and virginal love~All of this might still
46 3,2| promote a choice for virginal love. In reality, it constitutes
47 3,2| the cross and of Paschal love is one of these registers.
48 3,2| virginity is expression of love, and love either lives in
49 3,2| expression of love, and love either lives in a Paschal
50 3,2| not transmit the idea that love lives in a Paschal mode,
51 3,2| and no choice of virginal love will be able to be born
52 3,2| of the choice of virginal love.~And then, also for this
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