When the Spousal Gift is Scorned: Healing the Wounds of Rejection
“Married love is too often profaned by excessive self-love, the worship of pleasure and illicit practices.” (Gaudium et spes, 47)
Within the sacrament of matrimony, we are called to be a gift of self to our spouse. St. Pope John Paull II elaborated:
“Each person carries within himself an inestimable value. He receives this worth from God … man is ‘the only creature on earth which God willed for itself’ (Gaudium et spes, 24) and a personal being revealin…