This reflection from Denver Catholic explores the profound connection between Easter, the Cross, and covenant love in the context of marriage. Drawing from Scripture and Catholic teaching, the article invites couples to see their relationship as a living witness to Christ’s sacrificial love. Whether you're newly married or decades in, you'll find encouragement and spiritual insight for living out your vows with renewed purpose, mercy, and faith.

This reflection from Denver Catholic explores the profound connection between Easter, the Cross, and covenant love in the context of marriage. Drawing from Scripture and Catholic teaching, the article invites couples to see their relationship as a living witness to Christ’s sacrificial love. Whether you're newly married or decades in, you'll find encouragement and spiritual insight for living out your vows with renewed purpose, mercy, and faith.

We are returning mankind, starting with ourselves and our families, to our first relationship with God — he returns us to innocence in the sacrament of confession, then goes about establishing his will “on earth as it is in heaven” through the sacrament of marriage.

Most of the time, His will is simply that we remain faithful to our daily duties, doing the next “right thing” with love, as the Saints teach us. And we need to be ready, if in the silence, the Lord asks something bigger of us than He asked on any prior day.

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