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Lesson 6

Offenses Against Chastity and Marital Love, Part 1

The sins of adultery, fornication, masturbation, and homosexual activity offend the unitive and procreative purposes of marriage and diminish the goods of marital love.

Lesson Vocabulary

  • Chastity
    :
    A moral virtue that helps us manage or control our desires for bodily and spiritual pleasure in the way that God intended. Chastity specifically involves self-mastery of sexual feelings. It is also virtue that helps us choose what is best for others. (2394, 2395)
  • Purposes of Marriage
    :
    The two purposes of marriage that are essential for a marriage to be a marriage. Anything that prevents or diminishes these purposes is contrary to God’s plan for marriage. They are the good of the couple (unitive purpose) and the generation and education of children (procreative purpose). (1660, 1664)
  • Goods of Marriage
    :
    The characteristics of marital love that are reflections of the characteristics of God’s love. Marital love and God’s love is free (freely given), faithful, total self-gift, and fruitful.
  • Adultery
    :
    The unfaithfulness of at least one spouse in marriage by thought or deed. It is a grave sin that offends both the unitive and procreative purposes of marriage. The Sixth Commandment specifically prohibits adultery, which Jesus affirmed in the Sermon on the Mount. (2400)
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