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Introduction

Dear friends:

CONSTRUCTING CONJUGAL LOVE arises from the need, expressed by many marriages, marriage partners, and agents of pastoral family groups, to have material available that is simple and fun to reflect on love and married life.

CONSTRUCTING CONJUGAL LOVE wants to be a contribution, as a little grain of sand, to the current marriage, immersed in a society that has trivialized love, fidelity, and sex; a philosophy which penetrates widely through the media of social communication, advertising, pornography and licentiousness of customs.

Marriage and the modern family are obviously fragile. So it is imposed, each time with more energy, providing them with resources to help and ensure its stability. The most ideal and authentic, for this purpose, is a true communication, through which marriage will bring to light its unlimited ability to deliver and to love. BUILDING THE CONJUGAL LOVE has been designed as a service in this area: that of dialogue.

Each of the topics have a similar format. It starts with a base text, followed by reflection - which is not to be read lightly, but rather to expand upon and to discuss. Then to facilitate the task, there are a series of questions in order to guide and direct dialogue. It ends with a prayer about the subject matter, which can also arise spontaneously by the spouses.

Reading and reflection can be at two levels: couple or group. For the first, it is suitable for couple to opt for the most appropriate time for silence and dialogue. In the case of working in groups of couples, it will surely lose dialogue and reflection and a degree of intimacy. But it will be enriching because of the exchange of experiences open to other couples. It is best to work on both levels.

I put this work in the hands of the Holy marriage of Nazareth, Mary and Joseph. Together with their Son, Jesus, may they accompany them permanently in reflection and dialogue on these pages. May they be substantive help in the construction of the conjugal love, that one day, dear married couples, you set out to make, when facing the altar, and express to each other:

Yes to love.

Yes to life.

Yes to be happy together.

Yes to Jesus.

RICARDO ENRIQUE FACCI