Holiness

The couple that seeks holiness must do so together, for they are two that have become one. It is not enough for husband or wife alone to be a Saint. Marriage can never be about me or us and only then God. It must be God first and only then us. This is because marriage is the most intimate reflection of Trinitarian love we have, and only with God first can we realize this and so become Saints.

Opportunity

The world is full of opportunities to Love.

Submission

If the husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the Church, presenting her before God blameless and pure, to die for her that she may live, then we may say that his love is to will for her good before his own, always. It is to this love that wives are to submit, to this will that they must bend their own.

After all, if your husband wills for your good before his own, and you refuse, what are you rejecting?

Far

Love can never say "this far and no farther."  Its arms must always be outstretched to their utmost, like the Man on the Cross.

Apathy

In Christianity you will certainly find those who are willing to turn the other cheek, and even those who are willing to turn others' cheeks, but you will at least not find those who doubt they have cheeks to turn.

Likewise, in Christian teaching you will find empathy, and even enmity, but you will not find apathy.

And why? Because it can never be said that Christianity doesn't teach that there are things worth fighting for, even if it teaches that the best way to fight for them is not to fight at all.

The Goal.

You know, it occurs to me that I've seen very good, nice, possibly even holy people say that they'll be satisfied if they just make it to Heaven. Setting up salvation as the goal makes no sense. The goal is not Heaven. The goal is the most intimate communion with God possible, people. Don't seek to make Heaven by the skin of your teeth. Seek to commune with God as deeply as you possibly can, always.