5. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the report, the
students should be able to:
■Define and identify what is the
Sacrament of Matrimony;
■Understand and describe Marriage;
■Appreciate and value the sanctity of
Matrimony.
7. THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
■ Matrimony or Marriage is the unique
Sacrament which binds one man and one
woman together in a covenant under God
and His Church.
■ It is a Sacrament of vocation, a response
to a specific calling that God has placed in
the hearts of a couple. It is a bond that
lasts for life which is permanent, faithful,
8. THE SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE
The sacrament of marriage is
a visible sign of God’s love for the
Church. When a man and a woman
are married in the Church, they
receive the grace needed for a
lifelong bond of unity.
9. MARRIAGE IS A COVENANT
The Sacrament of Marriage is a
covenantal union in the image of the
covenants between God and his people with
Abraham and later with Moses at Mt. Sinai.
This divine covenant can never be broken. In
this way, marriage is a union that bonds
spouses together during their entire lifetime.
10. The sacrament of Matrimony signifies
the union of Christ and the Church. It gives
spouses the grace to love each other with the
love with which Christ has loved his Church;
the grace of the sacrament thus perfects the
human love of the spouses, strengthens their
indissoluble unity, and sanctifies them on the
way to eternal life.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church 1661
11. Matter: The mutual consent of
the couple and their promise to
live together as husband and wife
in a lifelong union.
THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
12. Form: “I take you…” (spoken as a
vow) or “I do” (spoken as an
affirmation of the vow spoken by
the representative of the Church).
THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
14. Every man experiences evil around
him and within himself. This experience
makes itself felt in the relationships
between man and woman. Their union has
always been threatened by discord, a spirit
of domination, infidelity, jealousy, and
conflicts that can escalate into hatred and
separation.
MARRIAGE UNDER THE REGIME OF SIN
15. Polygamy is incompatible with the
unity of marriage; divorce separates
what God has joined together; the
refusal of fertility turns married life
away from its “supreme gift,” the
child.
MARRIAGE UNDER THE REGIME OF SIN
16. The remarriage of persons divorced from
a living, lawful spouse contravenes the plan
and law of God as taught by Christ. They are
not separated from the Church, but they
cannot receive Eucharistic commun-ion. They
will lead Christian lives especially by
educating their children in the faith.
MARRIAGE UNDER THE REGIME OF SIN
17. Virginity for the sake of the Kingdom of
Christ is the center of all Christian life.
Virginity for the sake of the kingdom of
heaven is an unfolding of baptismal grace, a
powerful sign of the supremacy of the bond
with Christ and of the ardent expectation of
his return, a sign which also recalls that
marriage is a reality of this present age which
VIRGINITY IN MARRIAGE
18. Marriage is based on the consent
of the contracting parties, that is, on
their will to give themselves, each to
the other, mutually and definitively, in
order to live a covenant of faithful
and fruitful love.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church 1662
20. THE EFFECTS OF THE
SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
1. THE MARRIAGE BOND
The consent by which the spouses
mutually give and receive one
another is sealed by God himself.
21. 2. THE GRACE OF MATRIMONY
This grace proper to the
sacrament of Matrimony is
intended to perfect the couple's
love and to strengthen their
indissoluble unity.
23. “Conjugal love involves a totality,
in which all the elements of the
person enter – appeal of the
body and instinct, power of
feeling and affectivity, aspiration
of the spirit and of will”.
24. CONJUGAL LOVE IN MARRIAGE
The love in a married
relationship is exemplified in the total
gift of one’s self to another. It’s this
self-giving and self-sacrificing love that
we see in our other model of
marriage, the relationship between
Christ and the Church.
25. THE GOODS AND REQUIREMENTS OF
CONJUGAL LOVE
■The unity and indissolubility of marriag
■The fidelity of conjugal love
■The openness to fertility
26. The Sacrament of Marriage is
“unitive, indissoluble and calls us to
be completely open to fertility.”
Christian marriage at its finest is a
reflection of God’s self-giving love
expressed between the love of two
people.
27. The Christian home is the
place where children receive the
first proclamation of the faith. For
this reason the family home is
rightly called “the domestic church,”
a community of grace and prayer, a
school of human virtues and of
Christian charity.
28. REMEMBER . . .
Marriage is not just about
two people, but is the foundation
of the family, the “domestic
church,” the most basic and
foundational structure, not only
for the Church, but for all of
29. REMEMBER . . .
St. Paul said: “Husbands,
love your wives, as Christ
loved the Church. . . . This is a
great mystery, and I mean in
reference to Christ and the
Church” (Eph 5:25, 32).
31. A reading from the Book of Genesis 2:18-24
The Lord God said: “It is not good for the
man to be alone. I will make a suitable
partner for him.” So the Lord God formed out
of the ground various wild animals and
various birds of the air, and he brought them
to the man to see what he would call them;
whatever the man called each of them would
be its name.
32. The man gave names to all the cattle, all
the birds of the air, and all wild animals; but
none proved to be the suitable partner for the
man. So the Lord God cast a deep sleep on
the man, and while he was asleep, he took
out one of his ribs and closed up its place with
flesh. The Lord God then built up into a
woman the rib that he had taken from the
man.
33. When he brought her to the man, the
man said: "This one, at last, is bone of my
bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be
called woman, for out of 'her man' this one
has been taken." That is why a man leaves his
father and mother and clings to his wife, and
the two of them become one body.
35. TEST I. REFLECTION
1-5. Express and reflect
your own understanding
on the reading from the
Book of Genesis 2:18-24.
36. TEST Il. FILL IN THE BLANKS
6. The mutual consent of the couple and their
promise to live together as husband and wife in a
lifelong union is the _______ of the Sacrament of
Matrimony.
7. The ______ is the supreme gift in the Sacrament o
Matrimony.
8. ________ for the sake of the Kingdom of Christ is
the center of all Christian life.
9. _______ is incompatible with the unity of
marriage.
37. TEST I. FILL IN THE BLANKS
11. _________ involves a totality, in which all the
elements of the person enter.
12. For this reason the family home is rightly called
“__________,” a community of grace and prayer, a
school of human virtues and of Christian charity.
13. _______ separates what God has joined together
14. The _____ turns married life away from its
“supreme gift,” the child.10.
15.“I take you…” (spoken as a vow) or “I do” is the
_______ of Matrimony.
40. TEST I. FILL IN THE BLANKS
1-5. NUMBER OF SENTENCES
6.Matter
7. Child
8. Virginity
9. Polygamy
10. Marriage
11. Conjugal love
12. The Domestic Church
13. Divorce
14. The refusal to fertility
41. TEST I. FILL IN THE BLANKS
15. Form
16. The unity and indissolubility of
marriage
17. The fidelity of conjugal love
18. The openness to fertility
19. The Marriage Bond
20. The Grace of Matrimony
