God is the author of marriage and established it to be a lifelong union between one man and one woman. Marriage helps overcome self-absorption and opens one to love and care for their spouse. God calls both men and women to the fundamental vocation of love through marriage. A successful marriage reflects Christ's love for the Church and allows a couple to cooperatively care for creation. Discerning whether one is called to married life involves reflecting on how to be fruitful while single and preparing oneself for that commitment through addressing challenges with God's grace.

1. Vocation of Married Life

2. What the world think about marriage

3. John 2:1-12

4. The Author of Married Life
● “The intimate
community of life and
love which constitute
the married state has
been established by
the Creator and
endowed by him with
its proper laws ... God
himself is the author
of marriage.” Gadium
et Spes 48

5. Marriage in the plan of Salvation
● “[...]After the fall, marriage helps to overcome
self-absorption, egoism, pursit of one's own
pleasure, and to open oneself to the other, to
mutual aid and to self-giving.”-CCC 1609

6. God's call for men in marriage
● God who created man out of love also calls him
to love – the fundamental and innate vocation of
every human being. For man is created in the
image and likeness of Gdo who is himself love.
Since God created him man and woman, their
mutual love becomes an image of the absolute
and unfailing love with which God loves man ...
And this love which God blesses is intended to
be fruitful and to be realized in the common
work of watching over creation. - CCC 1604

7. John 13:34-35
● A new comandment I give to you, that you love
one another; even as I have loved you, that you
also love one another. By this all men will know
that you are my disciples, if you have love for
one another.

8. Challenges and Grace
● Free ● Self-centeredness &
● Total single mentality
● Faithful
● Unforgiveness
● Fruitful
● Unfaithfulness

9. Discerning for Married Life
● Be fruitful in your singlehood
● What is God's vision for your marriage life?
● Prepare yourself for that vocation!