"If God is for, who can be against us? Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Trial, or distress, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? Yet in all this we are more than conquerors because of him who has loved us."

                            ~Romans 8:32,35, 37

For Reflection:

This passage lists various vicissitudes of life. What are they? What would be some corollaries to these in your own life? How could these sufferings seek to convince you that God has abandoned you? But what does the passage tell you about God's love? How does this give you hope?

Experience Grace In Abundance: Ten Strategies for Your Spiritual Life NEW! by Johnnette Benkovic Pb 304 pages Click Here For More Information:                  STRATEGY 3 Make Use Of The Sacraments The Sacrament of Matrimony:"And the two Shall Become One." In the Eucharist the memorial of the New Covenant is realized, the New Covenant in which Christ has united himself for ever to the Church, his beloved bride for whom he gave himself up.  It is therefore fitting that the spouses should seal their consent to give themselves to each other through the offering of their own lives by uniting it to the offering of Christ for his Church made present in the Eucharistic sacrifice, and by receiving the Eucharist so that, communicating in the same Body and the same Blood of Christ, they may form but "one body" in Christ.--CCC, no.1621