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Marriage - Paper

Marriage

Kathleen Mills
Honors Morality
Mr. Meyerl
13 October 2011

Jesus Christ restored the original blessing making marriage between baptized Christians a sacramental sign of his own love for the Church. The Bishops rejoice because so many people are living in fidelity to their marital commitment. Openness to children also comes with marriage. However, when people think of children as not necessary, there comes a negative mentality. It indicates a mentality in which children are not seen as integral to a marriage but as optional. When children are viewed this way, there can be damaging consequences not only for them but also for the marriage itself. The divine plan, like the gift of ...

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of marriage. Many couples believe that their desire for each other justifies the sexual relationship. This belief reflects a misunderstanding of the natural purpose of human sexual intercourse, which can only be a realized in the permanent commitment of marriage. Sexual intercourse is meant to express the total and unrestricted gift of self that takes place in married love. To have sexual intercourse outside the covenant of marriage is gravely immoral because it communicates physically the gift of oneself to another when, at the same time, one is not willing or able to make a total and permanent commitment. Although, if a couple lives together and does not have sex, everything is chill.
Just as there are two inseparable purposes of marriage as a whole, the same is true of the act most symbolic and expressive of marriage as a whole, namely, the act of sexual intercourse. Church teaching speaks of an "inseparable connection, established by God, which man on his own ...

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