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.
God’s love for us has four components or parts: it is free, total and self-giving, faithful, and fruitful.
The essential features of divine love that shape married love are fidelity, self-sacrifice, and generativity.
Marriage forms an unbreakable bond of love between the husband and the wife, which was God’s plan for humanity from the beginning.
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.
The virtue of chastity blossoms in friendship and shows us how to follow and imitate Christ.
Prayer comes from our heart, where we encounter God and enter into a conversation with Him.
In a Sacrament, God uses something physical and from this world to do something supernatural from Heaven.
We are all made in God’s image and likeness.
We are all made in God’s image and likeness.
