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Lesson 33: Friendship and Protecting against Lust
The virtue of chastity blossoms in friendship and shows us how to follow and imitate Christ.
The virtue of chastity blossoms in friendship and shows us how to follow and imitate Christ.
Marriage forms an unbreakable bond of love between the husband and the wife, which was God’s plan for humanity from the beginning.
The essential features of divine love that shape married love are fidelity, self-sacrifice, and generativity.
Gods love for us has four components or parts: it is free, total and self-giving, faithful, and fruitful.
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.
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 matter, form, minister, recipient, and effects of the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony.
We are all made in God’s image and likeness.
Jesus miracle at the Wedding at Cana is a sign that helps us understand that He is the Messiah.
Prayer comes from our heart, where we encounter God and enter into a conversation with Him.
We are all called to chastity.
Marriage is ultimately a pathway to sanctity, assisting us in reaching Heaven.
Through the Sacrament of Marriage, we come to understand the deeper mystery of God’s love, and we also receive graces to live out the Sacrament faithfully.
Living a life of holiness as a disciple of Christ requires us to live a life of witness to Him by sharing with the world our love for Christ by our words and actions.
The Church is the Body of Christ: a complex spiritual and physical reality that makes Jesus visible to the world in and through her many members, who each build up the Church by their unique gifts and talents.