Genuine love has two essential elements: self-sacrifice and commitment. Perfect love is total self-sacrifice and complete commitment.
The Sacrament [of Reconciliation] gives us a double dose of what we need: forgiveness of our sins and training in humility.
The word love is, perhaps, the most misunderstood common word in the English language because in the popular understanding it is defined by feelings and attraction. Authentic love, in contrast, is an act of the will.