Catechism of the Catholic Church - Sections 1646-1647

Again, I would like to turn your attention back to two more passages from the Catechism (CCC) and then follow up over the next couple of weeks to reflect on them. This week, I encourage you to read these passages below together with your spouse and then both reflect on what part of it stood out to each of you and why.

(1646) “By its very nature conjugal love requires the inviolable fidelity of the spouses. This is the consequence of the gift of themselves which they make to each other. Love seeks to be definitive; it cannot be an arrangement ‘until further notice.’ The intimate union of marriage, as a mutual giving of two persons, and the good of the children, demand total fidelity from the spouses and require an unbreakable union between them.  

(1647) The deepest reason is found in the fidelity of God to his covenant, in that of Christ to his Church. Through the sacrament of Matrimony, the spouses are enabled to represent this fidelity and witness to it. Through the sacrament, the indissolubility of marriage receives a new and deeper meaning.”

ACTION STEP: This week, read the passages together and reflect on what stands out to each of you and how you feel it applies to your life and your marriage. (Again, I will be giving some thoughts about it over the next couple weeks).