Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 7 > Unit 7
Lesson 31: Holy Matrimony: History and Celebration
Jesus elevated marriage to a Sacrament at the same time He announced that the time had come for God’s relationship with His people to be restored.
Jesus elevated marriage to a Sacrament at the same time He announced that the time had come for God’s relationship with His people to be restored.
Marriage forms an unbreakable bond of love between the husband and the wife, which requires self-giving, sacrificial love in imitation of Christ, who offers spouses the virtues and graces needed to endure and promote joy, peace, and mercy
Marriage is the primordial sacrament in which the union of one man and one woman reveals an integral part of human nature that has been inscribed in our very bodies.
Marriage is a reflection of the Divine Love that is God, who is Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
God’s love for us has four components or parts: it is free, total and self-giving, faithful, and fruitful.
The matter, form, minister, recipient, and effects of the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony.
The Bible begins with the first marriage of the original man and woman and ends with a vision of the wedding feast of the Lamb, Jesus, who is united for all eternity with His Bride, His Church.
The recipients of the Sacraments at the Service of Communion, Holy Orders and Holy Matrimony, are given the grace by Jesus to serve others and help lead them to Salvation in order to build up the People of God.
Jesus shows us the greatest expression of love: giving oneself completely to another, body and soul, and He calls us to love as He loves.
Marriage is the primordial sacrament in which the union of one man and one woman reveals an integral part of human nature that has been inscribed in our very bodies.
The sins of adultery, fornication, masturbation, and homosexual activity offend the unitive and procreative purposes of marriage and diminish the goods of marital love.
The sins of pornography, prostitution, rape, the use of contraception, and abortion offend the unitive and procreative purposes of marriage and diminish the goods of marital love.