I noticed there’s a new family in my parish this Sunday and I was struck by one of their girls. She has curly brown hair and the sweetest, most bashful smile. I managed to keep my mind on the Mass, but now I can’t stop thinking about her. Is there such thing as love at first sight?
Frederick J from New York, NY
I assume that you are a guileless youth, unburdened by any pathology. What you describe is not without precedent in human history. Jacob fell for Rachel that way and, before that, so did Isaac when he saw Rebekah. Less fortunate was the case of David and Bathsheba, but the problem there was not that he saw her, but that he saw too much of her.
