3 Goods of Marriage

Marriage as sacrament, conjugal love and fidelity, serving life

The 3 goods of marriage

Marriage as sacrament

Catholic tradition has recognized marriage of the baptized is one of the seven sacraments of the New covenant

New covenant

Catholic tradition has recognized marriage of the baptized is one of the seven sacraments of the __

Marriage

Is seen as an ongoing saving symbolic action

Marriage

Is seen as grounded in the ministry of Christ

Marriage

Is realized and celebrated in faith

Marriage

Makes present and shares in, God’s love and faithfulness in Jesus Christ, in the pattern of his Paschal Mystel

Sacramental rites

Marriage as a sacrament refers to this essential thing: the sacramental celebration of marriage

On-going married life

Marriage as a sacrament refers to this essential thing

Marriage in the church

It is the solemn entry of the spouses into a binding commitment before God and the Christian community

Marriage

Is not for social customs, personal preference or even financial consideration

The ongoing married life of the couple

This frequently reminded that marriage is a process, not a state, a beginning, not and end, a threshold not a goal

The ongoing married life of the couple

Your marriage certificate is a learner’s permit, not a diploma, we must be clear about the realism of what is affirmed marriage as a sacrament

Marriage

The sign of christ

Primordial sacrament

Christ the __ also known as foundation that all sacraments are founded with Jesus

Jesus christ

He both grounds and provides the basis for christian marriage, and god’s perfect covenant love of his people

Jesus

Is god’s covenant

Love

In marriage refers not to any superficial, romanticized sentiment, but to the deepest, most fundamental reality of human life

Find fulfillment only when accepted as a person

But we __, only in personal love, only such love affirms us in our basic human dignity because it accepts us in our very selves

Married love

Is eminently human because it is an affection between two persons rooted in the will and embraces the good of the whole person

Gadium et Spes 49

Therefore, it can enrich the sentiments of the spirit and their physical expressions with a unique dignity and ennoble them as the special elements and signs of the friendship proper to marriage

Married love as friendship

The real authentic friendship is our most unselfish, enduring mutual love, grounded on our free, unshakeable commitment to the other for the other’s sake, not for our own good

Equality

Friendship brings out the fundamental __ of the partners in sharing not just physically, but on all levels of their mind and spirit

Becoming one body

Practical implications of married love: joint responsibility for __

Work at fostering this unity

The partners have to __ selves, it is within the real, concrete limitations of their own capacities and personalities

Faith in each other

The possibility growing in __, trust and love and believing in the worth of one’s partner, and in the marriage union itself

Ongoing changes

Responding maturely to the __ that occur in every human person’s life

Communicating with each other

The ability of __ on ever deepening personal levels

Indissolubility

Unbreakable unity

Authentic conjugal love

The very nature of __ of the spouses is the constant fidelity and an unbreakable unity between them

Serving life

Offspring

Unitive and procreative: conjugal love and offspring

Goals of marriage

Marriage and conjugal love

Are by their nature ordained toward begetting and educating children

Children

Are the supreme gift of marriage and greatly contribute to the good of the parents themselves

Physical sterility

Can be for the spouses the occasion for other important services of the life of the human person, for example adoption, various forms of educational work, and assistance to other families and to poor or handicapped children

Authentic personal love

Is never egotistical or turned in on itself, even when the spouses’ immediate reason for conjugal intercourse is to deeper their own life together and mutual love, there is indirect benefit to others in the family and the larger immediate community

Evangelizing agent

Family as an __

John Paul II

Four tasks of the christian family to reveal and communicate the love of god

Forming

__ a community of persons

Procreation and education

Serving life through the __ of offspring

Development

Participating in the __ of society

Sharing

__ in the mission of the Church

Ministry of marriage

Christian spouses __ to each other by strengthening each other’s faith, supporting, counseling, and easing each other’s burdens in healing and comforting.

Ministry of marriage

They __ to their children, most of all by having a lasting loving relationship with each other that establishes a sound family atmosphere

Religious formation

In relation to their childen, parents must not only take care of them physically, but also provide for their __

Family

Is meant by god to be the first school of discipleship

Parents

Are the first catechists of their children and where all the members mutually evangelize each other and learn to share with others the grace and light of christ

PCP II 576

The parents are the first catechists of their children and where all the members mutually evangelize each other and learn to share with others the grace and light of christ

Christian family

Ministers to the wider community

Christian family

Exercises their ministry through its relation to jesus christ as prophet, priest, and king

Prophet

A believing and evangelizing community

Priest

A community of mutual sanctification in worshipful dialogue with god

King

A community at the service of man through christ’s new commandment of love

John Paul II

Marriage in the pattern of the paschal mystery, this paschal pattern of love is stressed by __

FC 56

By marriage the spouses are made part of the mystery of the death and resurrection of christ in a new way

Amor propio

To die to their own __ and over-sensitivity, to rise to mature communion in reaching out

Eucharist

Is a model for christian marriage because it is the personal loving self-gift of christ to his beloved disciples in the shared consecrated bread and wine, around the table of the lord

At table through shared meals, in the marriage act of sexual intercourse

Marriage is the mutual personal loving self-gift of the spouses to each other in two basic ways:

Life-giving

Both the eucharist and the married spouses’ sexual intercourse involve the giving and receiving of the human body in a __ way

Gifts

Both the participants are drawn to god because ultimately they are __ from god, not duties which one has to perform

Serving life: offspring

Marriage as intimate partnership of life and love, is rooted in the conjugal covenant of love of irrevocable personal consent

Covenant

It stresses on __ rather than merely contract and personal as well as institutional, provided as a helpful balance, this balance was also fostered by the council’s careful avoidance of the common distinction between procreation and conjugal support as primary and secondary end of marriage respectively

Church and christian family

Both the __ are communities united together in love

Constant growth

Both are __ in loving communion

Worship

Both church and christian family __ around the table of the lord

Loving service

Both share christ mission of __

Pilgrim people

Both are __, on a journey toward the final destination