Jeanie Hannaman

By Jeffrey Mirus, Catholic Culture - This is why the spiritual life is not simply a matter of learning to recognize our sins so that we can obtain absolution through the sacrament of Penance. Of course, the sacrament gives grace—it increases the life of Christ in us—but if confession is the only form taken by our own active participation in the process, we are likely never to get over the discouragement of falling into the same sins again and again. It is true, of course, that Our Lord can grant us the particular grace of never being tempted again to a particular sin.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - We must be careful to understand that what humans manifest sexually, God manifests spiritually, for God is neither male nor female in His essence. We may say that the First Person loves the Second Person and the Second Person loves the First Person. So real is that love that it bears fruit in the Third Person. In this way the married couple images God, for the husband and wife love each other and their love bears fruit in their children (See, USCCB, “Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan”).