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Title: The Theology of Marriage


1
  • The Theology of Marriage

2
Marriage and Sacrament
  • What is a sacrament?
  • An efficacious sign of grace, instituted by
    Christ and entrusted to the Church, through which
    Divine life is infused by the power of the Holy
    Spirit.

3
Objective Goal for Marriage Preparation Ministers
  • A man and woman should come to the sacrament of
    marriage with the understanding that they have
    been created by God, in the image and likeness of
    God, and are called through the vocation of
    marriage to reveal Gods love to one another, and
    Gods saving presence to the world.

4
Together, Created in the Image of God
  • When God created man, he made him in the likeness
    of God he created them male and female. When
    they were created, he blessed them and named them
    man. (Gen 51-2)

5
Together, Created in the Image of God
  • The Lord God formed man out of the clay of the
    ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of
    life and so man became a living being (Gen 27).

6
Together, Created in the Image of God
  • This one at last is bone of my bone and flesh of
    my flesh this one shall be called woman, for out
    of her man this one has been taken.
  • That is why a man leaves his father and mother
    and clings to his wife and the two of them become
    one body (Gen 2 23-24).

7
What does this say about the nature and purpose
of Marriage?
  • The Hebrew understanding of body refers to the
    whole person, flesh and life-breath of God.
  • Marriage is for the good of the whole persons,
    who come together as man and woman, complementing
    one another in the image of God.
  • The new reality created in Christian marriage is
    life-giving and reveals the presence of God to
    the world.

8
Reflection Question
  • Think of a married couple who are or havebeen a
    role model to you as a couple.
  • What is it about them that you admire?
  • How do you feel when you are with them?

9
Marriage as a Sacrament
  • Saint John Paul II spoke of this reality in the
    apostolic Exhortation, Familiaris Consortio
  • This conjugal communion sinks its roots in the
    natural complementarity that exists between man
    and woman, and is nurtured through the personal
    willingness of the spouses to share their entire
    life-project, what they have and what they are
    for this reason such communion is the fruit and
    the sign of a profoundly human need. God takes up
    this human need, confirms it, purifies it and
    elevates it, leading it to perfection through the
    sacrament of matrimony the Holy Spirit who is
    poured out in the sacramental celebration offers
    Christian couples the gift of a new communion of
    love that is the living and real image of that
    unique unity which makes of the Church the
    indivisible Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus.

10
Christian Marriage is a Sacramentat Two Levels
  • Foundational level A Christian marriage reveals
    and celebrates an intimate communion of life and
    love between a man and a woman.
  • Symbolic level A Christian marriage proclaims,
    makes explicit and celebrates an intimate
    communion of life, love and grace between Christ
    and His Church.

11
Marriage as a Sacrament
  • Canon 1055- The matrimonial covenant, by which a
    man and a woman establish between themselves a
    partnership of the whole of life and which is
    ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses
    and the procreation and education of offspring,
    has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity
    of a sacrament between the baptized.

12
Sacramental Marriage
  • The Sacrament of Marriage reveals an indissoluble
    love that is
  • Free
  • Faithful
  • Forever
  • Fruitful
  • For the good of the spouses and all they
    encounter

13
Foundational Level of the Marriage Sacrament
  • The sacrament of marriage requires the full and
    free consent of the woman and the man entering
    into the marriage covenant.
  • The ritual asks, Have you come here freely and
    without reservation to give yourselves to each
    other in in marriage? Will you love and honor
    each other as man and wife for the rest of your
    lives? Will you accept children lovingly from
    God, and bring them up according to the law of
    Christ and his Church?

14
Marriage as Sacrament- Foundational Level
  • The bride and groom are the ordinary minsters of
    this sacrament.
  • The priest or deacon, as the witness of the
    Church, invites the couple to declare their
    intentions by saying

15
Vow of Consent
I, _____ take you _____ to be my wife/husband.
I promise to be true to you in good times and in
bad, in sickness and in health. I will love
you and honor you all the days of my life.
16
Sign of Covenantal Love
  • After receiving their consent the priest or
    deacon says, You have declared your consent
    before the Church. May the Lord in his goodness
    strengthen your consent and fill you both with
    his blessings. What God has joined, men must not
    divide.

17
Sign of Covenantal Love
  • The rings are a sign of unending covenantal love.
    In exchanging the rings the bride and groom say
  • ____ take this ring as a sign of my love and
    fidelity. In the name of the Father, and of the
    Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

18
Covenantal Love
  • Covenantal love transcends self, reaching beyond
    ones self to another.
  • Covenantal love in marriage is an irrevocable
    love formed when two equals join to create a new
    reality.
  • It involves a lifelong partnership of love for
    the mutual well-being of both the husband and
    wife and their children.

19
Covenantal Love
  • The Christian husband and wife assist one another
    in realizing his or her highest potential
    physically, emotionally and spiritually.
  • Christian love is rooted in service of one
    another.
  • All Christians are asked to give way to one
    another because you stand in awe of Christ. St.
    Pauls letter to the Corinthians describes
    Christian love
  • Love is patient, love is kind. It is not
    jealous. Love is not pompous, it is not inflated,
    it is not rude, it does not seek its own
    interests, it is not quick tempered, it does not
    brood over injury, it does not rejoice over
    wrongdoing but rejoices with truth. It bears all
    things, believes all things, hopes all things,
    endures all things.

20
Reflection Question
  • Think back our first reflection of the married
    couple whom you admire.
  • If you replace the word Love with that couples
    name. Is the reading accurate?
  • If you replace your names with the word Love what
    statements are true?

21
Symbolic Level of the Marriage Sacrament
  • The marriage rite calls the couple to be a living
    sign of the Church in the world. In the Nuptial
    Blessing, the priest or deacon prays,
  • Father, to reveal the plan of your love, you
    made the union of husband and wife an image of
    the covenant between you and your people. In
    fulfillment of this sacrament, the marriage of
    Christian man and woman is a sign of the marriage
    between Christ and the Church. (119)

22
Symbolic Levelthe Domestic Church
  • Marriage does not isolate the couple but immerses
    the couple in life. From the couple springs
    life.
  • In loving and serving each other, their children
    and their community, the married couple is a
    living witness to Christ.
  • This embodiment of Christs presence by the
    family in their day to day living is known as the
    domestic church.

23
  • The Beginning
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