premarital
Cards (4)
- Human love does not tolerate 'trial marriages'. It demands a total and definitive gift of persons to one another
- Husband and wife become in a way one heart and soil and together they attain their human fulfillment
- That is why when a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, they become one flesh
- The wisest and most practical way forward therefore may be for Christians both to hold fast to the centrality of marriage and at the same time to accept that cohabitation is (for many people) a step along the way towards that fuller and more complete commitment.