Theology (Marriage and Family)

• Preparations for Marriage


  • Remote Preparations for Marriage
  • Proximate Preparations for Marriage
  • Immediate Preparations for Marriage
• For marriage to really work


  The couple should know what is expected of them and should have the capacity to fulfill them
• Human Sexuality (Components) SSIRMH

  • Sexuality
  • Sex
  • Sexual Identity
  • Sexual Relationship
  • Sexual Maturity
  • Sexual Health
• Sexuality

  A person's identity in relation to the gender, encompassing the manner in which individuals use their own roles, relationships, values, customs and gender
• Sex


  Sexual activity, biologically based need oriented towards the generation of new life, with immediate aim of sexual activity and real purpose of procreation
• Sexual Identity


  The totality of one's personality, physical, spiritual, emotional or psychological elements that make man distinct from a woman and woman from man
• Sexual Relationship


  Our mode of being with others due to the need to relate, communicate and commune with other human beings
• Sexual Maturity


  The emotional and physically satisfying capacity to form a stable relationship with the opposite sex
• Sexual Health


  The integration of the emotional, intellectual and social aspects of sexual well-being, in ways that are positively enriching and that enhance personality and the communication of love
• Christian Understanding of Human Sexuality


  • Creation as Basis for Understanding Human Sexuality
  • Theology of the Body
  • Education in Chastity
• Christian View of Sexuality


  Sexuality signifies an essential dimension of the whole person, by which he/she enters relationship with others, and thus touches every aspect of personal life and must be developed by all men and women just as life itself must be
• Fully Human in Sexuality


  Sexuality becomes personal and truly human when it is integrated into the relationship of one person to another, in the complete and lifelong mutual gift of a man and a woman
• Creation: Basis for understanding Human Sexuality


  • God gives man and woman an equal personal dignity
  • Man and woman are both different and complementary
  • Man and woman are called to mutual gift of self and reciprocity
  • Sexuality is for love
• Nuptial Meaning of the Body

  The very design of our body orients us toward a marital/nuptial relationship, where the man is meant for the woman, and the woman for the man, and the communion of persons means existing in a mutual "for," in a relationship of mutual gift
• Theology of the Body

  Accept the body as a true gift from God, part of His master plan for creation, and a profound vision for understanding sexuality as a beautiful gift in God's design, a gift that is meant to be a means for self-giving love
• Theology of the Body

  • The Original Unity of Man and Woman as found in the Book of Genesis
  • Nuptial meaning of the body
  • Sacramentality of Marriage
  • Purity of heart vs concupiscence
  • Discipline
  • Art (Life in the flesh and life in the spirit)
• Education in Chastity


  Chastity is defined as the purity of the mind and the heart, where the person who is chaste refrains from sexual activity considered immoral or any sexual activity, according to their state of life, and chastity is the virtue that calls us to use our sexuality in a reasonable, responsible, and faithful manner, with a deep respect and admiration for the person and for the gifts of our sexuality and sex