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Sexuality
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The Invisible Reality
Sexuality, as God created it, is intended to be something
beautiful—a sign of our creation in the image of God.
God’s plan for love and conception in marriage mirrors the
Spirit of Love between the Father and the Son is so great that it literally becomes another
person—the
Holy Spirit, the
Third
P
erson
of the Trinity.Slide3
The Invisible Reality
Jesus, in his relationship with the Church, has held nothing
back
Complete
Free
Faithful
Fruitful
As a Church, are called to give our whole selves to Jesus
in the same waySlide4
The Visible Sign
Married love in
God’s
plan means becoming visible, physical signs of who God
is.
Giving
oneself freely, totally,
faithfully, and fruitfully
to another person and being open to the natural result of that mutual self-gift, which may come in the form of another
person—a child.Slide5
The Visible Sign
How do
we,
as a married couple, become visible signs of the Holy Trinity and of the relationship between Christ and the Church?Slide6
The Visible Sign
A man and a woman who come together in marriage
must do so
freely
. They must not feel any pressure to marry, but must make these vows by choice.Slide7
The Visible Sign
A man and woman who wish to marry
must be able to give themselves to one another
exclusively and completely
.
Since the visible sexual act renews a promise and visibly expresses the invisible reality of a bond sealed by God Himself,
a promise and a bond must exist for the act to make sense.
A vow of
faithfulness
must be present for the sexual act to be genuine.Slide8
The Visible Sign
The vows of marriage are made visible in the most complete manner in the sexual relationship properly shared.
The
C
hurch
teaches against actions that take sexual expression out of the context of a loving, healthy
marriage.Slide9
The Visible Sign
The Catholic Church teaches against
the use of artificial
contraception because it
closes the marriage to life and says to a spouse, “I
give my whole self to you – except my fertility
.”
The
Church also teaches against reproductive technologies that create life without the loving,
unitive
act of a
couple.Slide10
The Visible Sign
Catholics do believe in family planning.
Natural
family planning is a safe, effective, and moral way to space children and to limit the number of children a couple has if they have serious reasons for doing so.
Natural
family planning techniques also provide a safe, effective, and moral way to achieve pregnancy when a
couple has difficulty conceiving a child. Slide11
The Visible Sign
NFP is different from artificial contraception and artificial forms of
fertilization
because it works with the way God has created our bodies, rather than working against it.
God
did not create women to be fertile 100% of the time. He provided a way in nature for a
couple to space or postpone pregnancies when
necessary and
reliably predict ovulation
to facilitate pregnancy.Slide12
The Visible Sign
Intimacy in marriage – making love means more than having sex!
Time spent with one another
“Date nights”
Cuddling
Notes, phone calls, etc.
Flowers and other surprisesSlide13
Questions for Reflection
How does the Catholic view of sexuality differ from society’s view of sexuality?
Given the truth that marriage signifies, explain the reasons for the Church’s teaching about contraception.Slide14
Prayer
See prayer, p. 43