Grow in Love: Game of Love
Daily Formation for the Journey
The spiritual muscle-building that transforms how you love.
For centuries, the Catholic Church has preserved something extraordinary: God’s own instruction manual on love.
It’s in Sacred Scripture—the story of God pursuing humanity like a bridegroom pursues a bride. It’s in the Catechism—2,865 paragraphs of wisdom distilled from two thousand years of reflection. It’s in Theology of the Body—St. John Paul II’s revolutionary teaching on what it means to be made for communion. It’s in the encyclicals, the Church Fathers, the lived wisdom of the saints.
All of this exists. Most Catholics have never touched it.
The Formation Gap
Here’s a pattern I see constantly in ministry: faithful Catholics who want holy marriages but have never been formed in what love actually is.
They know the rules. Don’t have sex before marriage. Get married in the Church. Be open to life. But they don’t know the why behind the rules. They don’t understand the theology that makes those rules beautiful instead of burdensome.
And when you don’t understand why, you either follow the rules resentfully or abandon them entirely.
The Catechism calls us to a formation that reveals “the joy and the demands of the way of Christ”—a catechesis of the Holy Spirit, of grace, of the beatitudes, of virtue, of charity (CCC 1697). Joy and demands. Not rules without meaning. Not freedom without structure. Both.
That’s what Grow in Love provides.
What Daily Formation Looks Like
Grow in Love is a gamified daily quiz that connects you directly to the Church’s teaching on love, relationships, and marriage preparation.
Daily Quizzes — Each day, you receive questions drawn from Scripture, the Catechism, Theology of the Body, papal encyclicals, and more. Some test knowledge. Others invite reflection. All of them form you in the Catholic vision of love.
Progressive Levels — Start with foundational truths and work your way to nuanced application. Level 1 covers basic doctrine. By Level 5, you’re wrestling with complex scenarios that require real wisdom.
Streak Tracking — Consistency matters in formation. Build a daily habit of engaging with Church teaching, and watch your understanding deepen over time.
Hearts and Badges — Yes, gamification. Because formation should be engaging, not tedious. Earn rewards for consistency and mastery.
Why This Matters for Relationships
You might be thinking: I want to get married, not get a theology degree.
Fair. But consider this.
The Church teaches that Christian marriage is a vocation—a call from God that requires preparation and ongoing growth. As Lumen Gentium declares, “everyone... is called to holiness, according to the saying of the Apostle: ‘For this is the will of God, your sanctification.’”
Your sanctification. Not just “don’t mess up.” Active growth in holiness.
And holiness isn’t abstract. It shows up in how you handle conflict. Whether you can forgive. How you navigate desire. What you do when your spouse disappoints you. Whether you see marriage as self-gift or self-fulfillment.
The Catechism puts it beautifully: catechesis should teach us to “meditate on the Word of God in personal prayer, practicing it in liturgical prayer, and internalizing it at all times in order to bear fruit in a new life” (CCC 2688).
Bear fruit in a new life. That’s what formation does—it changes how you live.
Learning to Love as God Loves
Here’s the deeper truth: you can’t give what you haven’t received.
If you don’t understand how God loves—His pursuit, His patience, His willingness to sacrifice—you’ll struggle to love your spouse that way. If you don’t know what the Church actually teaches about the body, about sexuality, about the meaning of marriage, you’ll default to whatever the culture taught you.
And the culture’s vision of love is bankrupt.
Grow in Love connects you to something better. The apostolic teaching that St. Paul describes: “Let charity be genuine... Love one another with brotherly affection... Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer” (CCC 1971, citing Romans 12).
This isn’t head knowledge. It’s heart formation. And it happens one day at a time.
The Compound Effect
Nobody becomes virtuous overnight. Nobody learns to love well in a weekend retreat.
Formation is daily. Small. Cumulative.
Five minutes a day with Grow in Love won’t make you a theologian. But over weeks and months, it will shape how you think about relationships. It will give you language for what you’re experiencing. It will connect your daily struggles to the wisdom of the Church.
And when you finally meet the person you’re going to marry? You’ll have a foundation to build on.
Practical Katie’s Insights
Spiritual formation isn’t optional for holy relationships. It’s the soil everything else grows in.
Your next step: Start a Grow streak. Just one quiz a day—it takes five minutes. Do it for a week. Notice what you learn, what challenges you, what you’d never thought about before.
You’re not just preparing for marriage. You’re learning to love as God loves. And that formation will bear fruit in every relationship you have—romantic or not.
Grow in Love offers one free quiz per day. Unlimited quizzes available with a Game of Love premium account at gameof.love.