29th May

Respect of article 212 of the Common Law

This is an example of a French civil wedding. The assistance sits down around the married in the lounge of the town hall. The deputy mayor is waring a tricoloured scarf and solemnly reads the article 212 of the Common Law: "Husbands and wives mutually owe each other faithfulness, safety and help...". Faithfulness? In the room some smiles are exchanged, because the marital unfaithfulness of the municipal officer have fed pewters of the small city for a long time.

However, the priviledged field of faithfulness, is that one of the relations between husband and woman, which God has established. Jesus emphasizes on the final commitment of marriage at several occasions. Its character should be indissoluble, and consequently husband and wife owes themselves faithfulness. The world makes fun of this virtue and enjoys itself with everything that ridicules it: books, plays, films or songs. Don't let us laugh with the world. If we virge with the evil our conscience looses its sensitivity.

Let us be honest! The unfaithfulness starts in the heart; the Lord underlines it (Matthew 5, 28). If we don't give any attention anymore to the spouse, nor care for him/her, nor share the joys of each other and if we lower him/her by our word, complain about his/her lacks and compare him/her with somebody else then we forget the command to love. We are then already in the process of committing, already internally, this adultery which is so much rejected by the Lord. Adltery therefore is appreciated by our legislation.