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Familiaris Consortio
REFLECTION
INTRODUCTION
Section one of the document expressly opens up the contents and applications of the document to a broad audience. It is written for those living in fidelity to the Church's extant teachings and practices in the area of matrimony, Marriage is the intimate union and equal partnership of a man and a woman. It comes to us from the hand of God, who created male and female in his image, so that they might become one body and might be fertile and multiply. Though man and woman are equal as God’s children, they are created with important differences that allow them to give themselves and to receive the other as a gift.
Marriage is both a natural institution and a sacred union because it is rooted in the divine plan of creation. In addition, the Catholic Church teaches that the valid marriage between two baptized Christians is also a sacrament, a saving reality and a symbol of Christ’s love for his church. In every marriage the spouses make a contract with each other. In a sacramental marriage the couple also enters into a covenant in which their love is sealed and strengthened by God’s love. Those who have become bewildered by the contemporary challenges encroaching upon the family, and even to those who live in unjust unawareness of the freedom and human rights guaranteed to them to have all the fullness that marriage might offer. In other words, the intended audience of the document is an intrinsically ecumenical one. It is not merely addressing Catholics in good standing with the Church, but the holy father reaches his hand out to assist everyone struggling with the sundry difficulties in contemporary married life.
Pope John Paul II notes in section six of the exhortation that the situation of marriage and the family in contemporary life is an ironic one in the sense that there are both commendable advances being made in Western culture and enormous setbacks. It is not so simple a situation as to claim that Western
REFLECTION
INTRODUCTION
Section one of the document expressly opens up the contents and applications of the document to a broad audience. It is written for those living in fidelity to the Church's extant teachings and practices in the area of matrimony, Marriage is the intimate union and equal partnership of a man and a woman. It comes to us from the hand of God, who created male and female in his image, so that they might become one body and might be fertile and multiply. Though man and woman are equal as God’s children, they are created with important differences that allow them to give themselves and to receive the other as a gift.
Marriage is both a natural institution and a sacred union because it is rooted in the divine plan of creation. In addition, the Catholic Church teaches that the valid marriage between two baptized Christians is also a sacrament, a saving reality and a symbol of Christ’s love for his church. In every marriage the spouses make a contract with each other. In a sacramental marriage the couple also enters into a covenant in which their love is sealed and strengthened by God’s love. Those who have become bewildered by the contemporary challenges encroaching upon the family, and even to those who live in unjust unawareness of the freedom and human rights guaranteed to them to have all the fullness that marriage might offer. In other words, the intended audience of the document is an intrinsically ecumenical one. It is not merely addressing Catholics in good standing with the Church, but the holy father reaches his hand out to assist everyone struggling with the sundry difficulties in contemporary married life.
Pope John Paul II notes in section six of the exhortation that the situation of marriage and the family in contemporary life is an ironic one in the sense that there are both commendable advances being made in Western culture and enormous setbacks. It is not so simple a situation as to claim that Western