I have just started a new spiritual reading and although I have only had the chance to read several pages, I was profoundly moved by its content. It may sound a bit quirky but the title is Three to get married by Fulton Sheen. Now I believe that I didn’t choose this book, it in fact chose me. Not for any pithy romantic reason, well at least at a human level. In hindsight, I can see how its content meets a personal need to grow in this particular area of my spiritual life. To cut a long story short, I was in dire need of something to lean on (for writing purposes) and this book happened to be first thing I grabbed from my friend’s bookshelf. As I looked at the title of the book I chose at random of the shelf, I must admit I had a little chuckle to myself at the title. After having served it purpose, I decided momentarily to have a quick look at the content of the book, with the hope that it would possibly provide some material for a joke or two. At a quick glance, I realised that this was not one of those cheesy self-help guides for those preparing for marriage, but a theological, philosophical and moral explanation of love and that it offered an extended commentary on how human love is mirrored on Trinitarian love. I just want to post one paragraph for everyone this week from this book. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

“Every person is what he loves. Love becomes like unto that which it loves. If it loves heaven, it becomes heavenly, if it loves the carnal as a god, it becomes corruptible. The kind of immortality we have depends on the kinds of loves we have. Putting it negatively, he who tells you what he does not love, also tells you what he is. “Amor pondus meum: Love is my gravitation” said St Augustine. This slow conversion of a subject into an object, of a lover into the beloved, of the miser into his gold, of the saint into his God, discloses the importance of loving the right things. The nobler our loves, the nobler our character. To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity”

What I really like about this excerpt is that it spurs one to examination and conversion, It reminds us where our hearts and minds should be.