Spirituality is the living of an adequate response which the human person are expected to give to the call of God moved and led by the Spirit of God. Seen in this light spirituality of married life has the following characteristic:
(a) It is the daily call and response. While all the beings in this world with a specific pattern of behavior called natural law, the human beings are called into existence personally by God. Life is, therefore, a call and response. This is given at every moment and hence every moment ought to to be a response. In the case of persons this call is specific to each one and it manifests itself in different ways. In marriage it is the call of God given to a man and women mediated by each other. They respond to God through their mutual love. they make their life meaningful by this mutual daily response.
(b) The human love is become the sacrament of the love of God. They manifest their response to God by their love for one another. By the sacrament of matrimony each becomes a grace to the other. Their human conjugal love becomes consecrated love.. This will not take place automatically. Since they carry with them their belonging to sinful Adam and Eve, they have to be constantly struggling to keep their love for one another free from selfishness. It is this ascetism of self-denial which makes their human love become the symbol of divine love.
(c) The acceptance of the cross as an expression of their covenantal love. The married couple will have to accept the differences of each. This is an integral part of the true love. This will be the cross that they have to experience daily. This does not characterize each one as the cross of the other. The cross is in the effort to relate to the other. But if they dedicatedly accept this cross and live it in fidelity , the relationship will result in an experience of the resurrection, giving them a lasting joy and happiness.
(d) The spirituality of sexual union. Sexual union at married couple is an expression of their love for one another in its highest form. If is done in a spirit of genuine love and not in a hedonistic spirit it will become the sacrament of the creative love of God. It will build up their communion in such a way that it will grow into genuine personal relationship lasting even unto death , continually experienced even when physical sexual pleasure becomes diminished. The presence of the spirit of God who is the real source of happy life is fully operative in the lives of such couple.
