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Sacrament of Matrimony
By Peace | September 22, 2008
This is the last time I had seen Puma cat on 13th September 2008… not that I see, but Clara…
On this day, Saturday 20th September 2008, the church celebrate 25th Sunday of the year, The Generous Love of God.
This ‘albino cat‘ was seen sitting beside the wall of the pillar. When I saw him, he turned around and walked away.
I saw the red collar on his neck… the previous week when we saw him, he was not wearing any collar….
On another pillar was another cat with red collar. It looked like ‘Mary Cat’… but the collar is now red… I wondered if they are the same cat… They were not near me but some distance away.
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.
Holy Scripture affirms that man and woman were created for one another: It is not good that the man should be alone. The woman, ‘flesh of his flesh’, that is, his counterpart, 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. Therefore, a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh. 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.”
Openness to Fertility
By its very nature the institution of marriage and married love is ordered to the procreation and education of the offspring and it is in them that it finds its crowning glory.
Children are the supreme gift of marriage and contribute greatly to the good of the parents themselves. God himself said,”It is not good that man should be alone,” and “from the beginning, made them male and female”; wishing to associate them in a special way in hi sown creative work, God blessed man and woman with the words:”Be fruitful and multiply.” Hence, true married love and the whole structure of family life which results from it, without diminishment of the other ends of marriage, are directed to disposing the spouses to cooperate valiantly with the love of the Creator and Saviour, who through them will increase and enrich his family from day to day.
The fruitfulness of conjugal love extends to the fruits of the moral, spiritual and supernatural life that parents hand on to their children by education. Parents are the principal and first educators of their children. In this sense the fundamental task of marriage and family is to be at the service of life.
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