Spirit of Truth, Classic Edition > Grade 5 > Unit 8
Lesson 6: Marital Love and the Divine Love of God
Marriage is a reflection of the Divine Love that is God, who is Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Marriage is a reflection of the Divine Love that is God, who is Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Holy Orders is the Sacrament through which Christ continues His ministry in the Church until the end of time.
Prayer comes from our heart, where we encounter God and enter into a conversation with Him.
Marriage forms an unbreakable bond of love between the husband and the wife, which was God’s plan for humanity from the beginning.
The Church is both a visible society and a spiritual community.
The scriptural basis, matter, form, minister, and effects of the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
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.
A Sacrament is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace.
God calls each of us to love as He loves, and this call is written in our bodies.
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.
A Sacrament is an efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, through which divine life is dispensed to us.
Human beings image God not only as individual persons, but most perfectly as male and female in a common union (communion) of love.
The sins of adultery, fornication, masturbation, and homosexual activity offend the unitive and procreative purposes of marriage and diminish the goods of marital love.
Baptism is the foundation of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit.
Pope Saint John Paul II taught that, “The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and divine. It has been created to transfer into the visible reality of the world the mystery hidden from eternity in God, and thus to be a sign of it.”