08/07/2025
Dear family in Christ
I would like to share my experience of what the retreat meant to me and the mark it left.
For these 19 years I have known that my marriage received God’s blessing the day we said yes, but to be honest with myself I came to my marriage with many wounds.
God did not grant us children and that had affected me for a long time, a condition that I have been overcoming and accepting little by little with His help.
But in this retreat, two things were deeply engraved in my heart.
One was the difference between fertility and fruitfulness in marriage, and the other is that every time I received communion I became one flesh with the living God. Those two themes deeply touched my heart and lead me to want to improve both in my marriage and in my personal and spiritual life with God.
Having understood that fruitfulness is not limited to procreation, but encompasses a broader vision of love and mutual giving in marriage.
That we can express love to others selflessly, showing it as a gift of love and fullness through service to others.
Changing that mindset about how I saw my condition as a wife leads me to want to be a better wife and friend, wanting to show others that both procreation and fruitfulness matter.
And from now on, my worship and admiration when receiving communion will have twice the meaning it had before these three beautiful days that God allowed me to live in this Theology of the Body retreat.
I am infinitely grateful to God for people like you who bring light to our lives.
Postscript: I was so glad to know that there are still young people who want to please God and who make a vow of chastity until marriage or until the vocation that God has for each one of you. I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart.
