The Ultimate Union

The ultimate act of union between two souls is accomplished in prayer to God.  That is why marriage takes place during the Mass but is accomplished by the man and the woman as they for God to bless and join their union.  The world tells us it is our bodies that must be united.  That the sexual union is the most important part of a marriage but if the souls are not united in God, the sexual act loses its meaning and grace.

We see this today in the world.  We skip the union of mind heart and soul and jump into sex.  The threat to marriage isn't gay marriage.  Gay marriage is the result of our wholesale abandoning of marriage as a union of two people to God and the fruits of that union.  We lost marriage when it became something that was just between two people for their pleasure and at their pleasure.  When marriage became something disposable it lost its true meaning.  If marriage is solely for our own pleasure can you blame them for feeling it is their right?  Divorce has lead to the demise of marriage and the rise of cohabitation.

People today treat sex like shaking hands, something you do to get to know someone.  If you want to get to know someone, pray with them.  Invite the God of the universe into your relationship.  He knows that person better than they know themselves and He can reveal that to you if you let Him. Sex confuses all that.  How can you even get to know yourself when you are exposing yourself at your most vulnerable to someone you don't know.  It isn't safe and so you hide parts of you, the physical and emotional you.

Prayer is the true union of two people.  Pray to God together and if it is His will He will enter your hearts and draw them together.  If you continue to pray together He will strengthen you when times get hard and heal your wounds.  If your union is not His will He will show you and lead you where you need to go.