Today
we would like you to turn your gaze to the sweet Virgin Mary, of whom
the Church, in two days, will celebrate the feast of her Immaculate
Conception.
... Jesus Christ wanted the Church, his mystical wife, to be "without
stain or wrinkle... holy and without blemish" (Eph 5:27). Dear husbands,
this is precisely the model that the great apostle Paul presents to
you: "Husbands," he writes, "love your wives as Christ loved the Church"
(Eph 5: 25), because what constitutes the greatness of the sacrament of
marriage is its similarity with the union of Christ and the Church (Eph
3:32).
You may think maybe that the idea of unblemished purity applies only to
virginity, the sublime ideal to which God calls not all Christians, but
only a few chosen souls... And yet the state of marriage, willed by God
for common men, can and should have its spotless purity.
Anyone who performs his duties of state faithfully and without weakness
is immaculate before God. God does not call all his children to the
state of perfection, but he invites all of them to the perfection of
their state.
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Let’s pray together 
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