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Marriage is a Vocation
We are committed to pursuing our God-given vocation to marriage and family life. Individually, we have discerned that God has called us to the married life; David is passionate about following God's call to be a husband and father, and Frances knows that God destined her to be a wife and mother from the moment He knitted her together in her mother's womb (Ps 139:13). We rejoice that we have found one another so that we might begin this journey of marriage together, and we look forward to parenting the children with which He chooses to bless us. Ever seeking God's will for our lives and desiring to grow in holiness, we entrust our marriage to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and His Immaculate Mother, Mary.
We share with you some informative, encouraging, challenging, and inspiring quotations related to the ideal of Catholic marriage:
| Marriage is the committed partnership of two people, a man and a woman, equal in dignity, created in the image and likeness of God. They are called to be united in heart, mind and body — two in one flesh. They complement each other through their communion of life, expressed and nourished, in their conjugal love. Marriage binds them to be faithful to each other and to be open to sharing in God's work of creation. In Catholic teaching marriage is an exclusive, lifelong union of husband and wife. Between baptised persons, according to Catholic teaching, marriage is given the dignity of a sacrament. Joined by God in marriage, a man and a woman become a sign of the love between Christ and the Church. Their union cannot be dissolved by any purely human authority. Since it is given by God, the Church upholds the sacredness of human sexuality. The intimate embrace of husband and wife consummates their love for each other, expresses their complete commitment to each other and the earnest desire that their love should bear fruit in the birth of children. The Church strives to protect the dual purpose of sexual intimacy which binds husband and wife to each other and allows them to share with God in bringing children into the world. The Church is concerned whenever the gift of sexual expression is demeaned. In the Apostolic Tradition any use of the sexual faculty outwith marriage is sinful and dishonest, for of its nature it can only find true expression within the covenant of marriage. Likewise the contraceptive mentality prevents the gift of love between husband and wife from being true and complete by deliberately seeking to exclude conception. - Bishops Conference of Scotland, 2004 |
| “God himself is the author of marriage… as spouses fulfill their conjugal and family obligation, they are penetrated with the spirit of Christ, which suffuses their whole lives with faith, hope and charity. Thus they increasingly advance the perfection of their own personalities, as well as their mutual sanctification, and hence contribute jointly to the glory of God.” - Gaudium et spes, 48 |
| "This grace proper to the sacrament of Matrimony is intended to perfect the couple's love and to strengthen their indissoluble unity. By this grace they 'help one another to attain holiness in their married life and in welcoming and educating their children.'" (CCC 1641) |
| At the root of contemporary confusion concerning marriage is a lack of understanding of how we are made and why. Pope John Paul II’s theology of the body gives us an inspiring perspective, setting love, courtship, marriage and moral responsibility on the right track. Finally, it is vital to consider not only the definition of marriage but its purposes. The unitive and procreative purposes of marriage are thoroughly explored in Paul VI’s prophetic 1963 encyclical On Human Life. If you only have time to look at three things, LOOK AT THESE.
- from CatholicCulture.org |
| I believe that the truth about marriage—the truth proclaimed by our Mother the Church—can be summarized by considering marriage as (1) a person-affirming reality, (2) a love-enabling reality, (3) a life-giving reality, and (4) a sanctifying reality. |
| "Man ... cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself." - Gaudium et spes, 24 |
| God has designed family life very wisely. Marriage and children slowly train the will to move our love out of ourselves and focus it on others. And the longer I am in this school of love, the more I learn to appreciate its romance. Acts of selflessness are far more beautiful than flawless diamonds and they give me more joy than a picnic for two in the country. Small considerations, kind words, gentle encouragement, prayers offered, and sacrifices made — both given and received — can, and do, "transform the dust of everyday life into a golden haze." |
| The interior order of married life, which enables the manifestations of affection to develop according to their right proportion and meaning, is a fruit not only of the virtue which the couple practice, but also of the gifts of the Holy Spirit with which they cooperate. -Pope John Paul II, Theology of the Body |
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Love the family! Defend and promote it as the basic cell of human
society; nurture it as the prime sanctuary of life. Give great care to the preparation of engaged couples and be close to young married couples, so that they will be for their children and the whole community an eloquent testimony of God's love. Pope John Paul II, 2001 "Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another" (Jn 13:34). "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another" (Jn 13:35) trust in a love that is true, faithful and strong; a love that generates peace and joy; a love that binds people together and allows them to feel free in respect for one another. BENEDICT XVI |
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