Saturday, March 18, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 260 - Part II.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) 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 1604)
God who created man out of love also calls him to love - the fundamental and
innate vocation of every human being. For man is created in the image and
likeness of God who is himself love (Cf. Gen 1:27; 1 Jn 4:8, 16). Since God created
him man and woman, their mutual love becomes an image of the absolute and
unfailing love with which God loves man. It is good, very good, in the
Creator's eyes. And this love which God blesses is intended to be fruitful and
to be realized in the common work of watching over creation: "and God
blessed them, and God said to them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the
earth and subdue it'" (Gen 1:28; cf. 1:31).
Reflecting and meditating
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1605)
Holy Scripture affirms that man and woman were created for one another:
"It is not good that the man should be alone" (Gen 2:18). The woman,
"flesh of his flesh," his equal, his nearest in all things, is given
to him by God as a "helpmate"; she thus represents God from whom
comes our help (Cf. Gen 2:18-25). "Therefore a man leaves his father and
his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh" (Gen 2:24).
The Lord himself shows that this signifies an unbreakable union of their two lives
by recalling what the plan of the Creator had been "in the
beginning": "So they are no longer two, but one flesh" (Mt
19:6).
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