Life as a house... 
many points between apparently identical them, with patience
connected by a single thread
draw a house between the houses:
many windows the same,
one with the light on. So an engagement
: small steps, opportunities, looks and thoughts, tenderness and reproaches, tears of joy or disappointment, apparently a lot of points equal to each other that build day after day, a beautiful and fascinating story: a good story because it dealt with and lived not with the rush to consume, to enjoy now, but with the patience to enjoy every moment and live fully each step, with patience linking to each other and the important moments of daily life, a story so fascinating that two you can see a single person trace a single thread that holds it all together, holding them together, ever closer in love for each other, ever more conscious of being totally in the game and each other.
With this single wire, thin and fragile, you draw a house among the houses, a new house, build-to-decorate living, but similar to others already built with the same foundation walls that distinguish them from each other and But at the same time, support them all, with lots of windows from which one looks the same to the world from a privileged and valuable. There is a lighted window, which stands out among all the others from there today, along with Anna and Max will look at their history together. From their home, which is the image of their life (I recommend the film Life As A House by Irwin Winkler, The Last Dream Italian title), their dreams and plans, their future. Building their house is at stake, you have to roll up their sleeves, accept and bear the risks, invest there in person. Especially
choose not to be alone, know they are not alone. I am here today at the altar of the Lord because they recognize that made them meet the Love, Love is the glue that united them more closely, Love helped them to change to the other- the-self could feel accepted and understood .. now demanding that Love, that same single wire, it closes with a knot or a loop, but continues his work in weaving, making it sacred and holy their consent.
In this, the Church sees a sacrament, a visible sign of grace that is effective: the fact that "a man leaves his father and mother and cleaves to his wife and the two shall become one flesh" because they recognize that all are and that possess as individuals and as a couple, is included in the plan of God's will is so very beginning: "It is not good that man should be alone," said the Lord God, but a help similar to him, man does not find it anywhere / be the establishment except when God and the rib: "This time ...!». Adam's exclamation is one of the most beautiful descriptions of falling: falling in love with someone is to experience finally meet a part of themselves, the missing part, Adam is unable to fill his heart, even if the available 'whole of creation, gives its name to every plant and every animal that has them, knows them, but her heart remains empty. God is the problem of loneliness of Adam (strong God who cares about the good humor man!) And plasma woman: the plasma in the sleep of Adam, so that she will always be - for him - a mystery, and the plasma from the rib, the closest possible to the heart of Adam and leads (he himself) man. Reading of Genesis, therefore, loses all in our place and reminds us that, to be sure of good results, you must set the job right from the beginning, from the foundations.
Paul's words in the second reading, not only confirms: "In all known to God your needs ... God will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ ... Do what you have learned and received and heard and seen. "
The extraordinary page of the Beatitudes as a seal that is full and rich: we all agree on the solid foundation and eternal, those who are underground, hidden and silent, fulfill their duty, absolutely necessary. You'd really have a home that, in addition to solid, is made of gold? I mean besides the foundation is as important as deciding what to build on it. Anna and Max, choosing the Gospel of the Beatitudes, we are saying exactly what they want to build upon the foundation that is their faith: aim high, have ambitions, are willing to patiently put one brick on top of another because they want the their home and their lives do not speak of loneliness but of sharing, acceptance, protection. It is a brave choice, has an important cost: a hut of straw and mud comes up in half a day, a very small physical and economic costs, a house of gold, however, takes time, dedication, diligence, fatigue. It requires not settle for mediocrity. It requires teachers to rely on good, because it is not always wise or convenient to themselves. It involves mutual aid, which is why "it is not good that man should be alone."
The Beatitudes speak of free love, high, quiet, devoted, constant, and won, willing to do anything, humble, patient. Sacred love. Not sacrifice the 'you must', which oppresses and crushes, but the sacrum facere, to "make sacred" that Jesus offers us, that is, when love becomes a sacred thing because it is stripped from each search of gratification, does not expect anything in return, to live free. This love, when you lived amid all the contradictions that punctuate the lives of us all, is "the light of the world ... that shines before men ... because men give glory to the Father. " In a few minutes
Anna and Massimo tell each other: "I welcome you." Their love becomes sacred becomes a sign for all of us: a couple who loves is the sign of Christ who loves humanity. A couple who chooses to love the gospel, he chose to give themselves totally as Christ gave himself totally. And we, the community, making them, we learn to love ourselves. Despite the contradictions, problems, fragility, because God is in the middle and love becomes bright. Those who choose to marry in
Lord receive a sacrament. And it becomes a sacrament.
