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.

Married Couples are co-creators - entrusted the care of children.

.  Choice for LIFE means choice for Procreation & Responsible Parenthood.
.  In Contraception procreative - end frustrated.
.  Contraception     defeats the purpose of Marriage - which for total self - giving.
.  Contraception makes the sacred marital act unworthy because it depreciates the
    PERSON, degrades him/her to an object of pleasure.
.  The Church invites couples to understand their fertility patterns & use Creative
   Natural Fertility Management (CNFM) or Natural Family planning(NFP)
   which should be a way of life.

SPOUSES SHOULD ALWAYS RECALL "HOW DID JESUS - GOD LOVES US?

*   Freely : "No one takes my life from me., I lay it down on my own."

*  Fully (Unconditionally): "I give myself to you without reservation: body ,soul                                               and divinity"
*  Faithfully : "I will be with you always, until the end of time."

*   Fruitfully:  "I have laid down my life so that my bride may have life and have                           it to the   full."

WHAT Do COUPLES PLEDGE TO THE ALTAR?

"I...come before you freely and without reservation (fully)...and I promise to be faithful...open to my children that God wants to give us (fruitful)."


. Every sexual intercourse is a renewal of the wedding vows taken at the altar.


LAST WORD....


As Jesus Christ said, "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.>>(John 10:10). Baptism gives us new life in Christ. That life involves far more than simply following a set of rules. It is about understanding our calling and living as free human beings not tied down by any bond,ages, and making LOVE our fundamental option. Married couples have to fight this "culture of death by giving witness to a life - giving Marriage and help build stable, happy & Christ - Centered families.

STRONG MARRIAGE

If a family begins with a marriage, a strong family begins with a strong marriage. A marriage can only be strong if each spouse gives 150%. A good marriage is selfless and without sin , therefore no artificial contraception, nor even the desire to regulate children, unless there is a grave reason. Children    are no   longer something to try to avoid for a certain time, but rather they became the blessings, the gifts from God that they were meant to be. Gifts to be enjoyed and loved. The marriage provides the initial example; it is the first teacher, and it sets the tone for what a child sees as normal life. Parents must have a hap[py (although not perfect) marriage. Let our Lord fill the voids with His love. The closer they are to living with faith and God's Will,the happier they will be. Have you ever seen a selfish person be happy? Or an angry person?

In the Image of God

God said , "Let us make man in our image and likeness to rule the fish in the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all wild animals on earth, and all reptiles that crawl upon the earth." So God created man in his own image; in the image of God he created him,male and female. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase;fill the earth and subdue it." (Genesis 1:26-28)

In the opening chapter of the story of creation we read that God created human kind- both male and female-in his own image, and that he blessed them and commanded to be fruitful and to care for the earth. Right from the start, God shows himself as the creator who "saw all that he had made, and it was very good."Here, right at the beginning of the Bible, God reveals his heart to us. Here we discover God's plan for our lives. Many, if not most,twentieth-century Christians dismiss the story of creation as a myth,. Others insist that only the strictest, most literal interpretation of Genesis is valid. I simply have reverence for the word of the Bible as it stands. As Peter says,"With the Lord, a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day" (2Peter 3:8)

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