Matrimonio

Dios creó al hombre y a la mujer por amor y les ordenó que imitaran su amor en sus relaciones mutuas. El hombre y la mujer fueron creados el uno para el otro ... La mujer y el hombre son iguales en dignidad humana, y en el matrimonio ambos están unidos en un vínculo inquebrantable. (Catecismo Católico de los Estados Unidos para Adultos, Capítulo 21, p. 279)

The sacrament of marriage is a visible sign of God’s love for the Church. When a man and a woman are married in the Church, they receive the grace needed for a lifelong bond of unity.

El matrimonio es un pacto

El sacramento del matrimonio es una unión de pacto a imagen de los pactos entre Dios y su pueblo con Abraham y más tarde con Moisés en el monte. Sinaí. Este pacto divino nunca se puede romper. De esta manera, el matrimonio es una unión que une a los cónyuges durante toda su vida.
The sacrament of Matrimony signifies the union of Christ and the Church. It gives spouses the grace to love each other with the love with which Christ has loved his Church; the grace of the sacrament thus perfects the human love of the spouses, strengthens their indissoluble unity, and sanctifies them on the way to eternal life. (CCC 1661)
The love in a married relationship is exemplified in the total gift of one’s self to another. It’s this self-giving and self-sacrificing love that we see in our other model of marriage, the relationship between Christ and the Church.
El matrimonio se basa en el consentimiento de los contrayentes, es decir, en su voluntad de entregarse el uno al otro, mutua y definitivamente, para vivir una alianza de amor fiel y fecundo. (CCC 1662)
The Church takes the lifelong nature of the Sacrament of Marriage seriously. The Church teaches that a break in this covenant teaches goes against the natural law of God:
The remarriage of persons divorced from a living, lawful spouse contravenes the plan and law of God as taught by Christ. They are not separated from the Church, but they cannot receive Eucharistic communion. They will lead Christian lives especially by educating their children in the faith. (CCC 1665)

El matrimonio refleja la Santísima Trinidad

We believe that God exists in eternal communion. Together, Father, Son and Holy Spirit are united in one being with no beginning and no end. Human beings, likewise, were created by God in God’s image for the purpose of communion with another human being.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “The Christian family is a communion of persons, a sign and image of the communion of the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit” (CCC 2205). The Sacrament of Marriage is “unitive, indissoluble and calls us to be completely open to fertility.” Christian marriage at its finest is a reflection of God’s self-giving love expressed between the love of two people.
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