Friday, March 17, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 260 - Part I.
(Youcat
answer) God disposed man and woman for each other so that they might be “no
longer two but one” (Mt 19:6). In this way they are to live in love, be fruitful,
and thus become a sign of God himself, who is nothing but overflowing love.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 1600)
It is bishops who confer the sacrament of Holy Orders in the three degrees.
(CCC 1601) "The matrimonial covenant, by which a
man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of
life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the
procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons
has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament" (CIC,
can. 1055 § 1; cf. GS 48 § 1). (CCC 1602) Sacred Scripture begins with
the creation of man and woman in the image and likeness of God and concludes
with a vision of "the wedding-feast of the Lamb" (Rev 19:7, 9; cf.
Gen 1:26-27). Scripture speaks throughout of marriage and its
"mystery," its institution and the meaning God has given it, its
origin and its end, its various realizations throughout the history of
salvation, the difficulties arising from sin and its renewal "in the
Lord" in the New Covenant of Christ and the Church (1 Cor 7:39; cf. Eph
5:31-32).
Reflecting and meditating
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1603)
"The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married
state has been established by the Creator and endowed by him with its own
proper laws.... God himself is the author of marriage" (GS 48 § 1). The
vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they
came from the hand of the Creator. Marriage is not a purely human institution
despite the many variations it may have undergone through the centuries in
different cultures, social structures, and spiritual attitudes. These
differences should not cause us to forget its common and permanent
characteristics. Although the dignity of this institution is not transparent
everywhere with the same clarity (Cf. GS 47 § 2), some sense of the greatness
of the matrimonial union exists in all cultures. "The well-being of the
individual person and of both human and Christian society is closely bound up
with the healthy state of conjugal and family life" (GS 47 § 1).
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