Building up a Community of love.

 The love of the couple should overflow into their children. But care should be taken to make sure that it is a shared. love. The selfless love which bound the couple together now makes itself felt in the family through the selfless love towards their children and the selfless love of children towards one another.

Love nourished by prayer

 Communion with Christ who initiated the couple into the Trinitarian family must be nourished by a life of prayer which should characterize their life together. 

An atmosphere of love nourished by daily prayer which keeps alive the divine presence in their midst is a very important means to build up a Christian family.

Christian marriage is located within the great mystery of the union of Christ with the Church (Eph.5:32). 

The sacredness of marriage comes from the fact. The content and dynamics of this Mystery is God's love translated into human love. The heart of the sacrament of matrimony is precisely here.

Catholic Morality in Human Relationships

 Introduction

When married love is  lived in its most authentic nature, it is expressed in all life situations, becoming a witness, proclaiming and realizing the Kingdom of God: "It is in married and family love... that the Christian family's participation in the prophetic, priestly and kingly mission of Christ and his Church finds expression and realisation. Therefore, love and life constitute the nucleus of the saving mission of the Christian family in the Church and for the Church"(Familiaris Consortion [FC].50). The conjugal love of the spouses is fully expressed in fatherhood and motherhood, the fruit of their love, which makes them co-responsible for the gift of life, by protecting, developing, educating and evangelizing: "Christian couples are, for each other, for their children and for their relatives, co-operators of grace and witnesses of the faith. They are the first to pass on the faith to their children and to educate them in it. By word and example they form them to a Christian and Apostolic life"

Catholic morality is about life

Our Lord Jesus said, "I come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.>>(John 10:10). Faith & baptism give us new life in Christ.That life involves far more than simply following a set of rules. It is about living as free human beings not tied down by any bandages and making LOVE our fundamental option.
Morality is a call to recognize our dignity as men and women who have received a free gift of new life in Christ. We must live accordingly. Our Lord Jesus himself clearly taught us the first principles of Catholic morality: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. In these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.>>
(Mt 22: 37-40)

JESUS CHRIST THE KING

Culture of Death

In March 1995, Pope John Paul II spoke of a profound "crisis of culture" which was against the world
... marriage & family. A mentality against life enhancing culture, which he called as "Culture of Death"
... The phrase "culture of life"
Is described by Catholic moral theologians as philosophy that human life,at all stages from conception through to natural death, is sacred. As such , a "culture of life" is claimed to be opposed to seen by it's proponents as destructive of human life.often including embryonic stem cell research, abortion , euthanasia, contraception, sex outside marriage,capital punishment,greed, degradation sadistic humiliation, narcissism, selfishness, poverty and war.
The "culture of death" degrades the human person and encourages a mentality that devalues the institution of marriage and family. When it comes to human relationships, the human person is degraded into an object of pleasure, and the sanctity of marriage is not valued thus giving approval to pre-marital sex and extra-marital affairs.

Changes in Language Instituted by the Culture of Death

•  Pre-Marital Sex is now called co-habitation
•. Contraception methods - reproduce health products
•. Abortion - woman's health issue
•. Euthanasia - death with dignity
•  Pornography - sexuality explicit material
•. Child molestation - Inter - generated love
•. Promiscuity - serial monogomy
•  Adultery - flexible monogomy
•. Partner in adultery - significant other
•. Bestiality - interspecies love

We are called to give witness to love and life in these challenging times when the "culture of death" mentality is challenging the very foundation of the Christian understanding of the human person,marriage and family.

The Church is a mother and loves her children and wants the best for you,as a mother she has a  duty to teach the Truth to her children.When we talk about Catholic Morality we need to keep these thoughts in mind that the Church teaches as a mother.