CLF 2 Midterms

• Marriage as a sacrament


  • Built into the very created nature of man and woman
  • The external sign is a love relationship between spouses
• Components of marriage


  • Sacramental celebration
  • Ongoing married life
• Why get married in the church?

  • Jesus Christ
  • Remember the Wedding at Cana
• Marriage: the sign of Christ


  • Christ is the Primordial Sacrament
  • The Lover, the Baptized One, the Confirmed One, the Really Present One, the Reconciler, the Healer, and the Priest
• Sacrament of the Church


  The foundational sacrament
• What the Church does for the family

  Educates and builds up the Christian family
• Mission of the family


  Communicate Christ's love
• Aspects of conjugal love and fidelity


  • Love in Christian marriage
  • Married love as friendship
  • Practical implications of married love
  • Two aspects of graced conjugal love
  • Marriage fidelity/indissolubility
• Old Testament on marriage


  • Yahwist or "J" tradition
  • Priestly or "P" tradition
  • Similarities of Yahwist and Priestly tradition
• Jesus on marriage


  • Divorce is an act of unfaithfulness and adultery
  • Marriage is an institution of creation because it is co-created with our humanity
  • Confirms the natural equality between male and female, husband and wife, within the institution of marriage
  • Equal love
  • Unity
• St. Paul on marriage


  • Subordinate of husband and wife to one another
  • Love and respect
• Divorce in Christian teaching


  • Divorce
  • Annulment
• Two moments in creation (Genesis 1 and 2)


  • The first moment
  • The second moment
• The first moment


  • Days of Creation
  • St. Augustine's treatises on creation
  • Procreation and man and woman
• The second moment


  • Adam and Eve
  • Love, union, responsibility, and commitment
• Fallen humanity


  • Sin
  • Eve was tempted
  • Disobedience
  • They know that they are naked
  • Banished from the Garden
  • Death
• Redeemed relationships


  Grace, fellowship, communion, and obedience
• Introduction

  • St. Augustine's view on marriage and holiness
  • Redemption through the obedience of Jesus Christ
• Grace in Christ


  • Life
  • Essentials
  • Love
  • Sacraments
  • Celibacy - abstaining
• Engendered redemption


  • Woman and man are both God's masterpiece
  • Procreation involves obedience
  • Celibacy - state of abstaining from marriage and sexual relations
• St. Augustine


  Relationship is somewhat restored relationships that are not bound by blood but by baptism
• St. John Chrysostom


  • Offers more resources for marriage as equality between men and women
  • Advocates equality
  • Marriage relationship that is to be "transfigured by Christian love"
• 3 components of marriage

  • union
  • commitment
  • sacredness
• Vocations that are a way to holiness

  • religious people
  • single blessed
  • married life
• 2 moments of creation

  • creation stories
  • Adam & Eve
• 4 similarities of Priestly and Yahwist traditions

  • marriage
  • creation
  • equality
  • union
• What the Church does for the family

  • proclaiming the Word
  • support and care
  • proclaiming the new commandment about love
• 3 goods/values of marriage

  • mutual love and fidelity
  • offspring
  • sacrament
• Perspective of St. John Chrysostom about virginity and creation

  • communion with God
  • beauty of virginity
• 4 basic dimensions of priests

  • apostle
  • disciple
  • presbyter
  • presider
• In the Old Testament, priests were called

  • kingdom of priests
  • a holy nation
• What fallen humanity means

  • sins
  • disobedience
  • temptation
  • death
  • punishment
• Jesus Christ is the primordial sacrament and the Church is the foundational sacrament
• 3 works of St. Augustine

  • The City of God
  • Confessions
  • The Literal Interpretation of Genesis
• Celibacy in marriage

  • obedience
  • family-planning
  • creation
• Meaning of vocation

  • calling
  • mission
  • path towards God
• Equivalent of practical implications (marriage) and state of crisis (holy orders) for single blessed people

  • hardships
  • finding one's purpose
  • "being single is complicated"
• Words relating to engendered redemption if a woman and a man choose the vocation of single blessedness and religious life

  • both are God's masterpieces
  • peace and freedom
  • celibacy
  • obedience
• Opinion of St. Augustine on virginity and creation

  • redemption
  • eschatology
• Result if a woman and a man choose a married life

  • procreation
  • sacrament
  • fidelity
  • love and stability
  • celibacy
  • unity
  • obedience