Sunday, February 25, 2018
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 417 – Part II.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) According to God’s will, husband and wife should encounter
each other in bodily union so as to be united ever more deeply with one another
in love and to allow children to proceed from their love.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 2364)
The married couple forms "the intimate partnership of life and love
established by the Creator and governed by his laws; it is rooted in the
conjugal covenant, that is, in their irrevocable personal consent" (GS 48
§ 1). Both give themselves definitively and totally to one another. They are no
longer two; from now on they form one flesh. The covenant they freely
contracted imposes on the spouses the obligation to preserve it as unique and
indissoluble (Cf. CIC, can. 1056). "What therefore God has joined
together, let not man put asunder" (Mk 10:9; cf. Mt 19:1-12; 1 Cor
7:10-11).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) In Christianity, the body, pleasure, and
erotic joy enjoy a high status: “Christianity … believes that matter is good,
that God Himself once took on a human body, that some kind of body is going to
be given to us even in Heaven and is going to be an essential part of our
happiness, our beauty and our energy. Christianity has glorified marriage more
than any other religion: and nearly all the greatest love poetry in the world
has been produced by Christians. If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad,
Christianity contradicts him at once” (C. S. Lewis). Pleasure, of course, is
not an end in itself. When the pleasure of a couple becomes self-enclosed and
is not open to the new life that could result from it, it no longer corresponds
to the nature of love.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 2365)
Fidelity expresses constancy in keeping one's given word. God is faithful. The
Sacrament of Matrimony enables man and woman to enter into Christ's fidelity
for his Church. Through conjugal chastity, they bear witness to this mystery before
the world. St. John Chrysostom suggests that young husbands should say to their
wives: I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life
itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend
it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the
life reserved for us.... I place your love above all things, and nothing would
be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you (St.
John Chrysostom, Hom. in Eph. 20, 8:
PG 62, 146-147).
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