Fruitful hearts: To grow as a couple
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The objective of this book is to provide material, which is working for many, within reach of married couples so that they can discuss the essentials of life, that both are building, using themes that give them the opportunity to confront realistically and with ease their daily lives. It is the hope that these pages will also help those couples who are preparing to live the vocation of marriage.
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Fruitful hearts - Ricardo E. Facci
Ricardo E. Facci
Fruitful hearts
-To grow as a couple-
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For a new home
1. Constructing conjugal love
2. Fruitful Hearts
To the marriages, members of the Movement
Hogares Nuevos
who with your lives
teach each day the wealth of a marriage and
family and while they constantly encourage
to give more of myself more and more, in the work
as evangelizer of the domestic Church.
Prologue
Dear friends:
When I wrote the book Constructing Conjugal Love, I never imagined it would have such an impact and several print runs. Maybe it was the fact of having achieved the goal: to provide to the reader an affordable, fun and easy way to reflect on love and married life material. Readers and groups of married couples for some time have insisted that I continue to provide this type of material.
The testimony of many who commented on the use of the book, and its benefits, also encouraged me in this work, as in the case of Mabel and Thomas, who provided this writing to share with you:
Thomas: why one day I just felt...
Mabel: why one day I thought I could by myself...
Thomas: why one day I thought we were two and I was actually alone...
Mabel: why one day I felt we were no longer one, since when ... for how long...?
Thomas: why one day I thought I did not need anyone, not even God...
Mabel: why one day needing someone, God spoke to me through the words of a friend...
Thomas: when I thought that everything was collapsing and that my life no longer had any meaning to me ... that day I looked in the mirror and came across a stranger...
Mabel: in the emptiness of the abyss, on the brink of total collapse, in the back of your eyes God lit a flame and removed the ashes of my heart...
Thomas: in the middle of all this, someone
who did not even believe was a friend handed me the book Building Conjugal Love.
We approached him with many cracks in our soul. She was anxious and I was suspiciously. Holding hands, on those nights, we went out of the abyss, cleaning our wounds and rebuilding dialogue and lost harmony.
All this has motivated me in the realization of this new book: FRUITFUL HEARTS.
FRUITFUL HEARTS wants to help the growth of the couple so that their hearts are filled with love bountiful in fruits of happiness. The three parts of the book are unified in one sentence: We love in Jesus.
The first part wants to give the couple the opportunity to focus on themselves, and analyzes to what extent they can overcome the I
to achieve the US.
We love each other
corresponds to the second part, which tries to guide in the strengthening, knowledge and growth of marital love. In Jesus
, aims to highlight the reality that he lives in the midst of the Christian marriage and brings experience of love.
The objective of this book is to provide material, which is working for many, within reach of married couples so that they can discuss the essentials of life, that both are building, using themes that give them the opportunity to confront realistically and with ease their daily lives. It is the hope that these pages will also help those couples who are preparing to live the vocation of marriage.
Each of the themes has the same format. Ideally, the couple will read them and take the opportunity to talk and pray together. It can also be worked in matrimonial groups, respecting the privacy of the members.
May God bless these pages and those who come to them to renew the freshness of their marital love.
RICARDO ENRIQUE FACCI
I
Us
I + you = us
Jesus said:
"That all may be one:
as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee.
that they also may be one in us,
that they may be made perfect in one"
(John 17: 21-23).
That may be one, as you are in me and I in you.
Two lives called to be one us. Yours and mine.
Two lives as two rivers, each with its own water and its own current. By joining the two rivers each brings his own water, current, color, temperature, and can be observed at the beginning of the new river, even the differences in both waters. As we get deep in its new course. It's a new reality. A unit is created. In marriage the same is true: at first I
and you
, to penetrate in the history of the couple discovered that mingled in the us.
This construction of us started a day like any other, but yet so different... we saw, we met and we experienced to no longer be strangers. We felt that between the two of us there was something identical and distinct that attracted ... it is what we call love... or: the common vocation to be a couple.
Was it coincidence? Many believe so. But actually, that was neither a fluke nor destiny, rather it was God that bound those hands together and placed between his weaving the story of two lives. Until that time, they were two separate stories, afterwards there are no longer two stories or two wandering rivers, but one story, the untold story of us
. It is the story of you and also the story God as told through you. A story that no longer can live individually, each on his way, not even the two by themselves, but both and Him.
What once seemed like a child’s game suddenly became a commitment and a reality. A new world was created, a happiness that was to be built, two lives to be transformed into one. Perhaps both dreamed of that song by the group Mocedades which said:
Like a promise, you are, you are [to me]
Like a summer morning.
Like a smile, you are, you are [to me]
That's how, that's how, you are [that's how I perceive you]
You are like my hope, you are, you are [to me]
Like a fresh rain in my hands
Like a strong breeze, you are, you are [to me]
That's how, that's how, you are [that's how I perceive you]
You are the warmth in my home
You are (You are something like,)
Like the fire in my fireplace (something
like the fire from my fireplace)
You are (You are something like,)
The wheat of my bread (my love,
you are something like that).
Like my poem, you are, you are [to me]
Like a guitar in the night,
you are all my horizon, you are [to me]
That's how, that's how, you are [that's how I perceive you]
While both lives, along with the Lord, weave marital history. He accompanies them permanently to encourage and help them grow with fullness as a unit, but they will need to ask how to grow in this unit, which is not simply not be separated, but to achieve being one unit.
Is it still promises to build happiness? Are they summer mornings or autumn, the cold and cloudy days which have invaded them? Is there still a smile or just a bitter seriousness between the two? Is there hope or do they no longer expect anything from each other? Is there a fresh rain or a torrent of bad temper and selfishness? Is there a strong breeze supporting each other or a storm that produces loneliness? Are they a source of water or are they thirsty and looking for other waters
from outside the couple? Is there warmth in their home or is there only cold and frigid areas? Are there still guitars of joy although there are nights of sorrow, or does love no longer sing in their lives? Are they still the horizons for each other or are they looking for new horizons?
Marriage requires constant work. Never forget that. That they may be one ...
.
To discuss as a couple
1. What marriage experiences make us that we
?
2. What aspects of our lives need polishing to stop belonging to the I
or you
and start being we
?
3. Discuss the questions inserted in the text.
To pray together
Lord Jesus,
we want to be one
as the reality you live with the Father.
But we know it is not easy to
iron out all that still does not allow
a perfect unity.
Your grace, Lord,
As today,
Continue to help us grow
In this so beautiful relationship that we have
Proposed: to be one.
Join us to never separate,
being the one for the other,
Promise summer morning, smile, hope,
cool rain, strong breeze, source of water, warmth,
Guitar of joy, horizons ...
May we always