25. In the beginning man and woman

 He was a great man, a great saint, Blessed John Paul I, the antecessor to also great Saint John Paul II. 

The first one told the next anecdote when he already was Pope. Precisely on September 6, 1979. He told that when he was the bishop of Venice he used to assist some houses for the elderly. Once he encountered an old lady in one of these houses. And he asked her how she was, how she felt, how the heating worked, how the meals were … Everything’s okay, she was saying, but eventually he asked if she was content and happy. Then she nearly burst to cry. What’s the matter? He asked the old lady. Well, she said, my daughter-in-law, my son … they just don’t come to visit me, and also I’d like to see my grandchildren! 

Well, you know, the family. It’s so great a thing, and how much we miss them when perhaps they’re far away, or you just don’t have a family. 

The family is one of the greatest things God has created, and we cannot pass without it. 

Even more, at the beginning God created man and woman, and created him and her in his image, and told them Be fruitful and multiply. You know, it’s something so basic, man and woman, they were created such, and then man shall leave his father and mother and shall embrace his wife, and thus they will become one flesh. 

It’s just coming down to the core of the thing, I mean as basic as we have a man and a woman, they get married and have children. 

And we cannot override all this. And that’s precisely what we are looking for, that’s the essence: we cannot override the family and look aside: we cannot change all this principle. All this is precisely what we all aim at. 

Two men together? That is not the way, with all my respect to them, precisely. We oughtn’t to change what we can’t change. We shouldn’t twist our mind and get something new … created by whom, by man? 

Furthermore, God is but one God, ok, basic, but three persons in God: Father and Son and Holy Spirit. What then? A family. In God we have the family essence, love. We have the Father who engenders the Son, and love between them is then another person, the Holy Spirit. All at the same time and without a cessation. 

Let’s not twist our mind to the umpteen level. It’s all more basic than that. Perhaps we have to go back to the Bible and read about our fundamental origin. Besides then we have the Church who helps us interpret that tremendous book. Just let’s remember that old lady of the anecdote at the beginning, who missed her family so much. Let’s not deprive people form their basics. Have a nice day.

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