Igino Giordani, writer and journalist, politician, husband and father of 4 children, was also the first director of New Families and is considered a co-founder of the Focolare Movement. His cause for beatification began last year. Two commissions were set up to examine his writings (over a hundred books and four thousand articles): a historical commission and a theological one. We want to remember him today, 25 years after the end of his earthly life, with one of his prose works, which was recited during the live broadcast of Familyfest 2005 by RAI International last April 16. The wellspring of love – Igino Giordani “Through marriage a man and a woman are no longer two but one. To divide after having been so united means to make each other bleed to death. It means death. To conserve married love, there is no cohesive force other than love, but the kind of love that comes from the love of God, which is superior to nature’s vicissitudes and human moods.

Looking at my own life, I have to conclude that the success of marriage depends on the measure in which this kind of love is achieved. The value of marriage lies primarily in this, and not in a bank account, not in well-being or success, and not even in physical attractiveness. Marriage becomes love’s tomb when the physical attractions exchanged out of love are exhausted and its vivifying spirit is lacking.

To love each other more and more each day, to ignore each other’s defects, to ignore the wrongs one has been subjected to, to forgive always, to love each other over and over again… Then life becomes a joy. What purpose do indifference and selfishness serve? They only create hell on earth. Spouses who lose time not loving each other are two persons who lose time dying. Instead, if they love one another, then God passes between them. It is then that the home becomes a dwelling place of happiness, even in the midst of the greatest trials.