Theme 78 : Sacred Relationship

The intimate community of love which constitutes the married state has been established by the Creator. God HIMSELF is the author of marriage. The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they came from the hand of the Creator. Marriage is not a purely human institution. The well-being of the individual person and of both human and Christian society is closely bound up with the healthy state of family life. God blessed them said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it." The Holy Scripture affirms that man and woman were created for one another: The woman, "flesh of his flesh," his equal, his nearest in all things, is given to him by God as a "helpmate"; she thus represents God from whom comes our help. Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh. The Lord himself shows that this signifies an unbreakable union of their two lives.
                    (Ref. CCC 1603-1605)

Prayer :

O God, YOU created the human being out of love and calls him/her to love the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being. YOU created human beings as man and woman and their mutual love becomes an image of YOUR unfailing love. Help us to respect and promote the sacredness of marriage and family life.