A joint road to holiness

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A joint road to holiness

Author: Testimony,
"Love One Another!" 38/2017
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From the Catholic faith, we took only the things which met our expectations.

A joint road to holiness

Our road to discovering the truth about human sexuality and every person’s destiny to holiness was not easy. When we met in high school, the universal fashion for conformist life and cohabitation before marriage became also part of our lives. Although we didn’t resign from attending church or from the Catholic faith, we took from it only the things which met our expectations. And although we hadn’t always felt right with the attitude we had chosen, we believed that love should be expressed in intimacy. Now, looking back from the perspective of 10 years, we know that we were guided then by great immaturity, selfishness and naivety. We hurt each other in those days, robbing ourselves of purity and calling it love.

Conversion came to us nearly two years later, when a friend gave us a special issue of “Love One Another!” titled “The joy of pure love.” Although we didn’t immediately accept all the arguments by the authors of the articles inside, many of our fears and anxieties were named in these texts. So began the process of our return to the Truth and our submission to God’s love that heals all wounds. Although our problems, lust and addictions didn’t disappear, we saw the truth about the meaning of human love. We also learned why purity of the heart is worth defending and how to accomplish it.

After seven years of relationship we got engaged, and we lived in premarital purity throughout the period leading up to our wedding. This time was an investment in our future marriage.

Today, a year since our wedding, we know that the time of resigning from physical intimacy and deepening our knowledge about the meaning and purpose of marriage prepared us for a beautiful walk through life together.

We would like to join the MPH, so that the resolutions made to God in the Prayer of entrustment can be our signposts for all the days of our lives. We know that you can hardly avoid suffering and hardship in life: we can feel the lack of our own home and we have health problems. However, we believe that trusting God and loving Him, we will strive together to reach the goal of our marriage – holiness.

Danusia and Piotr

Source: https://loamagazine.org/archive/2017/2017-38/a-joint-road-to-holiness

The article was published with the permission from "Love One Another!" in April 2021.