SOWAs for marriage and family

• SOWA for marriage:


  '' what God has joined together let no one separate''

  '' man will leave his father + mother and will be united with his wife, the 2 will become one flesh
• SOWA for sexual relationships:

  '' Flee from sexual immorality, whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body''

  '' you shall not commit adultery
• SOWA for families:


  ''Parents do not treat your children in such a way to make them angry, instead raise them with discipline and instruction
• SOWA for the family in the local parish

  Jesus said '' let the children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these
• 2 SOWAs for use of contraception:

  '' be fruitful and increase in number''

  '' contraception makes sure that every child is a wanted child
• 2 SOWAs for Divorce:

  '' anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery''

  '' Marriage should always be undertaken as a lifelong commitment
• 2 SOWAs for equality of men and women in the family:

  '' Wives submit to your husbands as to the lord''

  '' God created human beings, making them to be like himself, he created them male and female
• 2 SOWAs for gender prejudice and discrimination:


  '' there is neither Jew, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female , for you are all in christ''

  '' the Lord Jesus chose men to form the 12 apostles, for this reason the ordination of women is not possible'' = mysoginistic