Romanian bishop Teofil of Spain and Portugal: “young people who had many relationships which broke up… they become unable to fall in love again… unable to commit to a relationship anymore… Their heart becomes stone, and all that can be done is just a deal, a negotiation… we try to see whether we it is a good deal or not… but this is not love… it is negotiation…”

Bishop Teofil:

That’s why the young people who had many relationships which broke up… they become unable to fall in love again… unable to commit to a relationship anymore…

Their heart becomes stone, and all that can be done is just a deal, a negotiation…

we try to see whether we it is a good deal or not, if he or she meets our expectations or our requirements or not…

but this is not love, it is negotiation…

When you love, you do not think about this, you take all the risks, no matter what, in good times and in bad, walk together with your beloved to the end, even to death!

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That is why the Church always warns the young people not to spend their youth in fornication, because fornication affects the body and the soul.

Fornication petrifies the heart to stone… kills in us the power to love…

So let’s be attentive my beloved, in this Sunday, to this very strong message: love does not mean neither power nor pleasure… love is serving and sacrificial…

Glory be to our Lord Jesus Christ, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit: now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.