The courage and risk of love "beyond reason...far beyond rationality" is a wonderful way to put it. Thanks. 

But... 

Why, then, amid Catholics called to go beyond reason and rationality in our loving are there so many institutional, objective, prescriptive, rules-based, legalistic, restrictive, rational, codified "mandates" that mitigate against--indeed often preclude--"going beyond" the rational and the temporal? 

Our intellects may be puny, but our individual capacity to love can be "irrationally" expansive. Yet we arrogantly do so much to regulate and neutralize going beyond reason.  The Church I know says "love rationally."

The can be no rule book for loving beyond reason, yet so often we try to rein in--by prescriptions (even doctrines sometimes) and regulations-- how we optimally love God and our fellow human beings with the brakes off.