Spirit of Truth, Classic Edition > Grade 7 > Unit 3
Lesson 14: Holy Matrimony: Effects and Living the Sacrament
Marriage forms an unbreakable bond of love between the husband and the wife, which was God’s plan for humanity from the beginning.
Marriage forms an unbreakable bond of love between the husband and the wife, which was God’s plan for humanity from the beginning.
Jesus’ death on the Cross and Resurrection made it possible for us to go to Heaven.
The main symbols of Anointing of the Sick are anointing with oil and the laying on of hands.
The Bible is the story of God’s people from Creation through the beginning of the Church.
Holy Orders is the Sacrament through which Christ continues His ministry in the Church until the end of time.
Grace is the free, undeserved help that God gives us to respond to His call to become His adopted sons and daughters, and sharers in His divine and eternal life.
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.
In a Sacrament, God uses something physical and from this world to do something supernatural from Heaven.
Each Sacrament can be understood in terms of matter, form, the minister, the recipient, and the effects or graces.
The scriptural basis, matter, form, minister, and effects of the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
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.
Grace is the free, undeserved help that God gives us to respond to His call to become His adopted sons and daughters, and sharers in His divine and eternal life.
Jesus is the Anointed One of God, the Messiah and Christ prophesied in the Old Testament, who came to save the world from sin and death.
In order to live the good life we must cultivate not only the inner life of moral virtue, but the outer life by our participation in our communities, participation in the Sacraments, and instruction by those holy ones who came before us.