EXTRA MARITAL AFFAIRS

Adultery can be Single or Double depending on whether one or    both are married. Why is Extra-Marital Affair wrong?

1. The word given on the wedding day is a serious word. They contradict the significance of  the sexual gesture performed with the spouse.
Sexual gesture points to a reciprocal gift and interior union. Relationship with a third party contradicts it.
2. Sexual act in Marriage  expresses a fundamental option  for the spouse.
Extra Marital Act directly compromises two persons in reciprocal                      choice and self-donation.
3. It destroys the  intimacy of conjugal dialogue and uniqueness of the sexual language.
* Human person uses several languages. The Sexual gesture is the secret language reserved only for spouses. Extra- Marital Affairs becomes a betrayal of a secret.
4. Contradicts the basic respect due for a Human person.
- Person unique and non-exchangeable
- We exchange things but not persons
- Extra Marital Affair - people regard others not as a person but as a partner.

How healthy would a marriage be if the couple were unfaithful to their wedding vows?

In the   domain of    sexuality what is Jesus Calling us to?

* Neither sexual slavery nor sexual repression
* But Sexual Redemption
* Lust blinds us to the true beauty of the  human  body & of the true marital love.

The SPOUSES are MINISTERS

* MINISTERS of love and life
* Marital COVENANT is a permanent bond
* The marital covenant mirrors the DIVINE Covenant: The Christ-Church Union 
* Married couple a living sign in the world.
* Marriage - a loving sign that communicates Permanence,togetherness & happiness.

Fundamental Principles with regards to Sexual Union in Marriage

1. "Every marital act must  be open to the transmission   of life"
2. One cannot separate from the unitive end of the sexual act, the procreative end. (Both inseparable)
3. Safeguarding both  these essential aspects (unitive and procreative),the conjugal act conserves integrally the sense of mutual & true love, and its ordination to the highest vocation of man and woman.