Saturday, October 27, 2012
347. What sins are gravely opposed to the sacrament of Matrimony?
“In brief”
(CCC 1646) By its very nature conjugal love requires the
inviolable fidelity of the spouses. This is the consequence of the gift of
themselves which they make to each other. Love seeks to be definitive; it
cannot be an arrangement "until further notice." the "intimate
union of marriage, as a mutual giving of two persons, and the good of the
children, demand total fidelity from the spouses and require an unbreakable
union between them" (GS 48 § 1).
To deepen and explain
(CCC 1643) "Conjugal love involves a totality, in which
all the elements of the person enter-appeal of the body and instinct, power of
feeling and affectivity, aspiration of the spirit and of will. It aims at a
deeply personal unity, a unity that, beyond union in one flesh, leads to
forming one heart and soul; it demands indissolubility
and faithfulness in definitive mutual
giving; and it is open to fertility.
In a word it is a question of the normal characteristics of all natural
conjugal love, but with a new significance which not only purifies and strengthens
them, but raises them to the extent of making them the expression of
specifically Christian values"(FC 13).
Reflection
(CCC 1647) The deepest reason is found in the fidelity of
God to his covenant, in that of Christ to his Church. Through the sacrament of
Matrimony the spouses are enabled to represent this fidelity and witness to it.
Through the sacrament, the indissolubility of marriage receives a new and
deeper meaning. (CCC 1648) It can seem difficult, even impossible, to bind
oneself for life to another human being. This makes it all the more important
to proclaim the Good News that God loves us with a definitive and irrevocable
love, that married couples share in this love, that it supports and sustains
them, and that by their own faithfulness they can be witnesses to God's
faithful love. Spouses who with God's grace give this witness, often in very
difficult conditions, deserve the gratitude and support of the ecclesial
community (Cf. FC 20).
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