Lighthearted the Listener

Love creates, consecrates, and educates children in the fullness of love. Through eros children are begotten and conceived, in the consummation of free, mutual, and total gift of self between two— male and female, heterogenous vulnerability as luminous sanctuary, facing one another fully with no shadow of shame. Love's desire is so truly real, and love's giving so truly substantial, that God the Giver of Life overshadows it with his presence, such that the love of two as one truly might become incarnate as a new, living person; through the deep mystery of the union and from its mysterious fullness, a new soul mysteriously enters the world. Through caring paternal and maternal sacrifice, by God's mercy and grace, the child is carried, protected, nourished and brought to light for all to see, for breath to breathe and the refreshment of hope. The hope of a child— the hope for a child— is the most ancient hope mankind has known, since we first began to hope in the infancy of ...