"To love each other very much, to admire each other and to be faithful to the commitment", is the answer that María Álvarez de las Asturias offers when asked about the keys for a marriage to last over time. Director of high school of Family Orientation 'Coincidir', will give this afternoon at the University of Navarra the fifth session of the Course of update of Canon Law centered on "Reflections on the current Canon Law . training priestly. Application of Mitis Iudex", in which a hundred experts will participate.

A former student of Master's Degree in Marriage and Family of the academic center and defender of the bond in the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Madrid for 17 years, she assures that marriage should be an option of love and freedom and not of limitation and burden: "We must be convinced that our union is the most important thing and what we have to take care of the most. We should not put up with it without being happy, but rather the commitment should help us to remember all the reasons that led us to choose each other and to put ourselves in each other's hands".

Álvarez de las Asturias explains that before getting married it is necessary to have had a good courtship, "which is defined above all by a love based on sincerity and trust: that we have been able to talk about everything we like, dislike, worry about, are happy about, our plans for the future... This includes being clear about what concept we have of marriage and if we agree on the idea that marriage is a union final in love. If we do not agree on what we are choosing, there will be difficulties". She also stresses the importance of having moments of anger and disagreement during the engagement: "That's good because it means it's real.

"One must be consistent with what one thinks."

María Álvarez de las Asturias is co-author of the book 'Una decisión original. guide para casarse por la Iglesia', edited by Palabra, which she is presenting this afternoon at the University of Navarra with Lucas Buch, professor of the School of Theology. Both are co-authors of the document along with the former student of the Ecclesiastical School Philosophy , Nicolás Álvarez de las Asturias. The presentation, which has been organized by Arguments, will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Amigos Building of the academic center.

The co-author says that in the book, written in a colloquial tone and not intended to replace a marriage preparation course, one can find reasons to consider whether or not to get married in the Church: "One must be coherent with what one thinks and must consider whether one is only going to do it because the ceremony is beautiful. But if you are a believer and are aware that God has a lot to do with love, it is logical that you want to put your marriage, a decision of radical love, in God's hands".