Young adulthood is a new life, eagerly welcomed, yet seldom entered upon without some pangs of nostalgia, not to mention qualms about the future. So it is a death as well. One is jolted by the realization that he is no longer protected and cared for; he is on his own and has obligations he never had before. It dawns on him, for example, that he is single, although he has never been anything else. What does it mean? Death to self-will, a new life of acceptance of suffering, a serious seeking of the will of God concerning marriage.
