The Latin word for adoration is ad-oratio – which means the touch of lips to lips, a kiss, an embrace, in the deepest sense love. Submission becomes a connection, a unity, because the one we submit to is Love. In this way, submission gains significance, as it imposes nothing from the outside, but frees us in the depths of our soul.
(Pope Benedict, sermon during the apostolic journey to Cologne, August 21, 2005)