MTH Chp. 9Respect for Marriage and Family

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• Quick review of the Immanent Trinity

(1) The Trinity gives its own pattern to the family

--Just as the Holy Spirit IS the love of God the Father and God the Son personified (in person), so children are the love of dad and mom in person.

CONSENT MAKES MARRIAGE

I, name, take you , name,To be my wife/husband.I promise to be true to youin good times and in bad,in sickness and in health;I will love you and honor youall the days of my life.

Name, take this ring as a sign of my love and fidelity, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

ALSO pg. 94

Goods or Meanings of Marriage

Procreative

Unitive Total

Human

Fruitful

Faithful

Paul VI JP II

--The Goods are INSEPARABLE.--The HARMONY between the goods is also a GOOD of marriage.

(1) Married sex is an action of MARRIAGE---something MARRIAGE does.

(2) Sex says “Marriage!”(3) Between two baptized, married persons, sex

is sacramental.(4) Spiritual and bodily communion (relationship

and sex) are INSEPARABLE---any attempt to separate them is UNJUST and causes suffering.

(5) Our culture’s separation of Sex, Relationship, Marriage, Children and Society from each other is our culture’s GRAVEST ERROR.

5 Implications of the HARMONY of the Goods

• Marriage IS TOTAL GIFT of SELF and TOTAL ACCEPTANCE of the OTHER.

• Sex SAYS TGOS/TAOO.• Sex outside marriage is a LIE.