Marriage and Family

Life in the Filipino

context
INSTRUCTOR
DDPOBLETE
 Prayer

Oh God almighty, behold us your loving

children, offering you today our studies.
Help us dear lord to be obedient, kind, and
diligent in our studies. May You always
grant us the courage to follow your way.
AMEN
 TOP 5 REASONS ON WHY GO TO
SUNDAY MASS.
► 1. Sunday is the Day of the Lord
► 2. God told us to keep his day holy.
► 3. To adore God, thank Him and ask Him pardon for our sins.
► 4. To receive God in Holy Communion as nourishment for our
soul if we are in the state of grace.
► 5. To love God, make Him happy, and as a consequence, be
ourselves happy and know that we are loved by God as well.
Learning Outcome

► Determine the essence of Marriage and

Family Life.
► Contemplate on the effect of various threats
to Marriage and Family.
► Establish a set of standards in promoting
Christian Marriage and Family life.
“This one, at last, is bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh. This one shall be called
woman, for out of her man this one has been
taken. That is why a man leaves his father and
mother and clings to his wife, and the two of
them become one body”
- Genesis 2:23-24
Marriage is the intimate partnership of
conjugal life and love.
It is not just a contract but a
covenant of indissoluble Love.
The Christian home is the place where children
receive the first proclamation of the faith.
For this reason the family home is rightly called
"the domestic church,"
 "the domestic church,"

• a community of grace and prayer,

• a school of human virtues
• and of Christian charity.
 The love of Christian spouses for each other
should be modeled on the love between Christ
and
the Church
A. Matrimony: Christian Marriage

Christian Marriage is the union of two baptized, man and woman, who freely give
himself/herself to each other in a lifelong covenant of love. Their relationship imitates
the love of Christ
for His Church (Eph5:2ff) and manifests that love for others to see.
Marriage as witness to the Love of Christ, It is
the intimate partnership of conjugal life
and love. It is not just a contract but a covenant
of indissoluble Love.
B. Biblical Foundation / Church Teaching

“ Covenant”
In scripture: A binding agreement or bond
between two parties.
“This one, at last, is bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh. This one shall be called
woman, for out of her man this one has been
taken. That is why a man leaves his father and
mother and clings to his wife, and the two of
them become one body”
- Genesis 2:23-24
 This passage preceded by God’s search for a
suitable partner for Man. “it is not good for man
to be alone.
I will make a suitable partner for him” (v.18)
C. Christian Family

The Fourth Commandment tells us, “Honor your

father and your mother.” The Catechism
begins its presentation of this commandment by
showing us what the tradition of the Church has
understood these brief words to contain:
“The fourth commandment opens the
second table of
the Decalogue. It shows us the order of
charity. God has willed that, after him, we
should honor
our parents to whom we owe life and who
have handed on to us the knowledge of
God.
 We are
obliged to honor and respect all those whom God,
for our good, has vested with his authority”
Here we see in concrete form the passage from
the “love of God” to the “love of
neighbor,” beginning with the family which the
Catechism calls “the original cell of social life”
“The fourth commandment is addressed expressly
to children in their relationship to their father and
mother, because this relationship is the most
universal,” the Catechism states. But the fourth
commandment also “concerns the ties of kinship
between members of the extended family. It
requires honor, affection, and gratitude toward
elders and ancestors.
Summary: COVENANT
► • A friendship agreement
► • It is a dynamic and not a static alliance
► • It is an open minded commitment
► • It involves the efforts of God, husband and
wife
► • It implies a certain relationship between two
parties involved promise each other a
communion of life, of shared ideals and above
all a covenant of love
Purposes of Marriage

► Mutual Loving
Relationship
► Procreation
Stages of Courtship by Fr. Ruben Tanseco,SJ

1. Friendship
2. Choice of a partner
3. Dating and courtship

• Infatuation phase
• Objectivity and Honesty Phase
• Altruism
4. Stable and Loving Relationship

► • Communication
► • Understanding
► • Honesty
► • Real to each other
► • Care for each other
UNDER Care for each other:

Recognition,
Kindness,
Independence
Responsibility
• Commitment

• Permanence
5. Engagement
Any Questions?