Our Approach

With John Paul II, we believe that man is created for love.  Since we are all created in God’s image, and, as St. John the Apostle tells us, “God is love,” love has something to do with our most fundamental identity.  God is in fact a divine Communion of Persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) engaged in an eternal exchange of love.  For all eternity, the Blessed Trinity exists in a movement of giving and receiving, begetting, and being begotten, a dance of infinite intimacy and fruitfulness beyond all our minds can conceive.

Being created in the image of the Divine Communion of Persons, love too defines the identity of the human person.  Man and woman come into existence through the self-gift of their parents, which God blesses and makes fruitful.  Our very existence is a gift that we receive, not only at the start of life but at every moment.

As we grow, we do well to increasingly discover this fundamental identity as sons and daughters of God who depend on him for existence at every moment.  We further discover that since our very being is a gift given to us, we find fulfilment only through making a total gift of ourselves to God and others.  This is what we refer to as the “vocation to love.”

“God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation, and thus the capacity and responsibility, of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.” – Pope St. John Paul II