Interesting Reading Today

Fidelity to one's spouse is made up of small duties:

• No one else should occupy one's heart and life other than one's spouse;
• Spouses ought to give each other warmth and affection so that their love would not grow cold;
• They must work at understanding and respecting each other;
• They must get to know each other so deeply that they immediately know what would make the other happy;
• They must attend to each other's smallest needs and concerns.

Many little things are easily overlooked because one forgets or takes them for granted. Yet remember that to deny one's spouse or child any token of love, no matter how small, is to deny Christ himself. One cannot underestimate the value of the little details because these spell the difference between success and failure in a marriage. Only the person who cares for the little things in daily life will hear at one's deathbed these words of Christ, "Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master."

-Javier Abad & Eugenio Fenoy, Marriage: A Path to Sanctity