World Marriage Day Mass From The Perspective of a Woman In Love

Love is Love...regardless. God loves us all regardless.

You are as you were made. If you believe in God, then you must know in your heart that a creator would not reject its creation for what comes naturally to them. Formal religion interprets... and interpretations change with time as knowledge and wisdom increases. I am so sorry that the one place where you should feel peace, acceptance and love instead denies you. I hope that this will change in our lifetimes; and I wish you love.

I agree with Michelle and Paula. Love.... transcends all else in this life.... Love is NOT a sin!
Love is THE REASON for our being, and fills our lives and makes us whole. WHO we love is
not the point.... but rather that we DO love someone other than ourselves. Without love
there is nothing.... no reason for being.... no purpose for living. Societies and religions that
promote hatred of any kind, for any reason, are certainly not acting as disciples of God!
If you follow what you know to be right in your own heart and soul then you are acting in
the image of God's love.... do not feel guilty for being honest with yourself and others.
You should be commended for your honesty. Every person deserves to be able to openly express their love. The fact that that "freedom" is denied to large numbers of people only
bespeaks the inequities that still exist in the world today. The world would be a much richer, fulfilling and better place if we concentrated more on LOVE.... less on HATE!

We gen get into a long discussion here, but the basic problem is one of words, and the coupling of words. We tie words to ideas; we often tie the same word to multiple ideas and through the word we link those ideas together, even when they really should not be tied together.

So let’s get back to those words; love is never a sin. God is love, and love is always good. Now we have to focus on what love is. Paul describes it in detail, but the executive summary is putting yourself at the service of another. We often associate love with sex, but with all actions it depends on the arrow of importance. If you are doing it (or want to do it) because you want to be happy, that’s lust. If you are doing it (or want to do it) because you want someone else to be happy, then that’s love.

If that’s confusing, (or leads you to think of self mortification) let’s look at the perfect analogy of lust and love. Consider this metaphor of Hell and Heaven. In hell everyone is seated around a round table with a Chinese meal and chopsticks. Unfortunately the chopsticks are very long. They can’t take their own food (although they can steal another person’s food) but the sticks are too long and their arms are too short to reach their mouths, so they stare and starve. Heaven is the exact same situation, only there everyone is feeding each other; not caring for themselves in caring for everyone and in turn cared for by everyone.

Jesus Christ died on the cross for you; the ultimate expression of love. Guess what? You’re not married to him. Marriage must be rooted in love, but all love is not rooted in marriage. Likewise the same arguments can be used to deconstruct marriage, a sacrament where two people participate in the procreative work of God brining new life into the world. (We can go on with a lot of apparent exceptions to this rule, but mostly this is because of the scriptural references to barren and infertile couples bearing children.) Scott Hahn takes this to an apparent extreme; suggesting that this relationship, true mutually self sacrificing love open to procreation makes sex “holy.” OK, that’s a bit extreme, but you can see where some people take this discussion to very odd levels.

OK bottom line; love is never a sin. Love doesn’t care who the other is. Love doesn’t care what other people think, only about what is important to the person to whom love is directed to. Everyone sins and falls short of the ideal mark, but at least try to maintain the ideal of chastity; not only is your body “holy” so is the body of the person you love.

When you choose to live according to the principles and standards of others to define yourself the I or self becomes becomes lost within the matrix of we. The cycle of life where action and consequence are mutable.

 

The implication is that your soul is right, but Jeremiah 17:9 'The heart is more treacherous than anything else and is desperate. Who can know it?'
Can we trust our own judgement without acknowleding God's?

Love is never a sin - we have to love our enemies, for a start. But how we choose to display that love demonstrates whether we trust that God knows what is best for his creation, or whether we know better.
He places sex only within a marriage arrangement between a man and a woman.
How we deal with those pulls in our lives is up to us.

I love a girl.
I choose celibacy.

We make our own decisions and will have to stand or fall by them.
But love itself is not a sin, it is what makes us the most amazing and stupid creatures on the planet.