TRINITARIAN

PRESENCE
IN
MARRIAGE
Aspect
MARRIAGE

Anchor Verse
"So there are three that testify, the Spirit, the
water, and the blood, and the three are of one
accord." John 5:7-8

The Grace We Seek:

We ask for the grace to help us anchor our
marriage in the Trinity every day.
Topic
God, in His ultimate desire to share His divine life with
Humanity, bestowed upon man and woman in marriage a
distinct mission - to be God's vessel of love for each
person. The church teaches: "Since God created him man
and woman, their mutual love becomes an image of the
absolute and unfailing love with which God loves man"
(CCC,1604). Clearly, the 3 persons - Father, Son and
Holy Spirit - in one God, who is truly present during
creation, calls man and woman to unconditionally love,
reflecting who God is.
Each person in the Holy
Trinity imparts fundamental
aspects of faith in the mission
shared by every man and
woman with God:
FATHER
The narration of man's creation in Genesis
indicates that God made both man and
woman in His own image and likeness. Man
and Woman is the perfect image of God
whereby goodness resides naturally.

Clearly, man and woman have the same

dignity. They are both son and daughter of
God and thus, belonging to the same family.
In the daily witnessing of married life, both
husband and wife are equal yet they perform
important and complimentary roles.
JESUS
St. Paul describes an image to the people of Ephesus on how husband and wife should
love each other. " Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the
Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,
his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives
should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives , just as
Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her
by the washing with water through the word , and to present her to himself as a radiant
church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
In this same way, husbands ought to
love their wives as their own bodies .
He who loves his wife loves himself"
(Ephesians 5:22 - 28). The following
verses associate the link Jesus and his
Church, the head and its body, and the
relationship between husband and
wife. The submission of the wife
(Church) and the love of the husband
(Jesus) clearly indicates a way of life
in marriage - total service, a natural
expression of love, to one another.
 HOLY
The paraclete, the promised spirit of
Jesus, is the agent of mission in guiding
SPIRIT
the path, deepening our relationship with
God, and blessing the work of the hands
of all baptized individuals engaged in
mission. While fully involved in mission,
the holy Spirit principally sanctifies
(makes holy) each person.
In the vocation of marriage, the Holy Spirit constantly guides
both husband and wife in their common call of witnessing to
life in mission. Each is blessed abudantly with grace from
the Spirit. So that together as husband and wife,
acknowledging their differences yet choosing to hold each
other's hands, ach one becomes the other's path to holiness.
"When a man and woman celebrate
the Sacrament of Matrimony, God
as it were "is mirrored" in them; he
impresses in them his own features
and the indelible character of his
love. Marriage is the icon of God's
love for us. Indeed, God is Key
communion too: the three Persons
of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Takeaway
Spirit live eternally in perfect unity.
And this is precisely the mystery of
Matrimony: God makes of the two
spouses one single life."
 • How do you exercise oneness
GUIDE or unity in marriage? Cite
QUESTIONS some examples.
• As a couple, what are the
things that challenge you to be
united as one?