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Editorial > Editorial Archive  Buenos Aires, July 23, 2006
The truth about the word LOVEI think the word Love is one of the words we employ most often, and it may also be the word we often use “most wrongly”. How many times the word “love” is applied to things or situations which have not the least to do with what this word truly means. We must distinguish between “love” and “infatuation” we may feel towards someone, since “loving” someone is searching for full happiness of the beloved one, it is a gift, a devotion of oneself, without asking or expecting anything in exchange. Infatuation of the senses is often filled with what is “felt” towards the other and with what he or she “can give me”.I think the word Love is one of the words we employ most often, and it may also be the word we often use “most wrongly”. How many times the word “love” is applied to things or situations which have not the least to do with what this word truly means. There are people around who even talk about “sins of love” but actually when speaking of sins we could speak of “lack of love” since we don't love, or maybe we love the wrong way. But I cannot imagine speaking of sins of love as if someone had loved in excess, since true love is the one which loves outrightly and for ever, and anyway, that's quite distant from being a “sin”. We must not be afraid of talking about the word Love, but in its actual meaning, not just a part of what it covers or in an often diverted sense. As the Church we must never stop talking about Love although it is very difficult to do so, and even more so showing it, since Love is not only a matter of words or of feelings, or of “making” it as it is quite wrongly termed when talking about one of the expressions of Love. Love is something that is passed on by the very experience, by life, by this “devoting oneself” without expecting nothing in exchange. These days there is much talk in our countries about “sex education”, even assaulting the Chuch which is said to be “averse to debate this issue” which is not so, for a long time now the Church has been talking about this issue, although not just about genitality with its miserable interests, but we talk about “Education for Love” and do not minimize Love to a mere expression of pleasure where many times attention is paid to “everything goes”. The “art of loving” is huge and very difficult to live and be practiced, however, few things are discussed in depth on this issue and many times it is trimmed down to the “wrong use” we make of this “term”. We must distinguish between “love” and “infatuation” we may feel towards someone, since “loving” someone is searching for full happiness of the beloved one, it is a gift, a devotion of oneself, without asking or expecting anything in exchange. Infatuation of the senses is often filled with what is “felt” towards the other and with what he or she “can give me”. True love is only understood trough God who has created Man for “His glory”, but we must understand clearly what the “glory” of God is, it is no other thing than the Human Being's Happiness, thus true and deep love can only rest on devotion of the other, looking for “the other's” full happiness.
Father Oscar Pezzarini together with Fr. Leonardo Abregú makes us reflect on Saturdays from 8 to 12 AM (GMT-03:00)with "VENTANA A LA VIDA", the Don Orione radio program he conducts on FM PROVIDENCIA, 90.3 MHz together with some residents of the Claypole Cottolengo (Raúl Romero, María Laura Andrada, Alberto Zoroch, Américo Torres), with the production of Roberto Beluzzo and Ignacio Cavalli as technical operator. You can also listen to FM PROVIDENCIA by clicking here.
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