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Lesson 8

Living the Vocation of Married Love Faithfully

Marriage is the perfect and complete form of human friendship.

Catechism Connections

Lesson Topics
Death Dignity of Life Sin Suffering Ten Commandments The Church
Essential Lessons
Lesson Vocabulary

  • Friendship
    :
    (n.): The common bonds of mutual goodwill that hold persons together. There are three types of friendship: 1) friendship of utility, 2) friendship of pleasure, 3) and friendship of virtue. Friendship not only binds together individuals, but also communities and states.
  • Consumerism
    :
    (n.): The belief that fulfillment is found in the acquisition of consumer goods.
  • Contraceptive Mentality
    :
    (n.): An outlook or frame of mind that treats sexual intercourse as a recreational activity, severing it from the procreation of children by employing various means of birth control. This outlook treats babies simply as inconvenient, avoidable, and if necessary, disposable by- products of sex.
  • Sterilization
    :
    (n.): A procedure intended to destroy a person’s ability to conceive a child, for example a vasectomy (men) or a tubal ligation (women).
  • Abortion
    :
    (n.): The deliberate termination of pregnancy by killing the unborn child. Willed as an ends or a means, abortion is gravely contrary to the moral law.
  • Roe v. Wade
    :
    (n.): The 1973 Supreme Court ruling holding that abortion was a right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and therefore state laws restricting first-trimester abortions were unconstitutional. This ruling overturned laws in 46 states and is protested each January in Washington DC at an annual March for Life.
  • Pornography
    :
    (n.): Removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners in order to display them deliberately in film, photographs, or other media for the sexual gratification of others.

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    Bishop Barron on Sex, Love, and God Video

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