IV. The Effects of the Sacrament of Matrimony
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Christ is the source of this grace. “Just as of old God encountered his
people with a covenant of love and fidelity, so our Savior, the spouse of the
Church, now encounters Christian spouses through the sacrament of
Matrimony.”147 Christ dwells with them, gives them the strength to
take up their crosses and so follow him, to rise again after they have fallen,
to forgive one another, to bear one another’s burdens, to “be subject to
one another out of reverence for Christ,”148 and to love one
another with supernatural, tender, and fruitful love. In the joys of their love
and family life he gives them here on earth a foretaste of the wedding feast of
the Lamb:
- SECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
- CHAPTER THREE THE SACRAMENTS AT THE SERVICE OF COMMUNION
- Article 7 THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
- IV. The Effects of the Sacrament of Matrimony
- Article 7 THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
- CHAPTER THREE THE SACRAMENTS AT THE SERVICE OF COMMUNION
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
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