Marriage and spirituality

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NevermoreLenore said:
I can only speak as a married woman. My husband guides me every day toward heaven. I am infinitely better because of his love, friendship,
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This is how I felt about my husband also. I left out the “Spiritual Leadership” part as we did not have that kind of relationship. However, my husband definitely showed me through his example how to be a good person/ better person and also what I needed to do to improve myself, so that was a form of leadership on his part.

I firmly believe God gives us the vocations he wants us to have. If God had wanted me to become holy through joining a convent, he would have made that happen. God wanted me to become holy through being married to a particular man. He made that happen instead.

It’s also my opinion that Pope John Paul II and other recent Popes who have emphasized the importance and holiness of marriage and family recognize that in some past eras of the Church, marriage and the family were somewhat de-emphasized and I would say taken for granted and perhaps even presented as a second-best option if you couldn’t become a priest or religious. I don’t think the Church ever officially presented the family that way, but certainly there were a lot of individual priests, sisters, theologians etc who did not seem to recognize the holiness of marriage or family for some reason or other, perhaps in some cases their own experiences.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
This is one priest writing his opinion in a “Pious Manual”. It is not a statement of official Church teaching because one priest said it.
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Of course yes.

But it not untrue to said that the thinking that is common in the Catholic Church evolved with the time. It was not always the same during the history.
We currently don’t live, think, pray, worship as the XIXth century men did. And we don’t have exactly the same values as before.

Truth stay the same and dogmas (almost) the same. But its expression change.

I am sure that you can agree that the Church you grow seems to look different than now?
 
The Church has never made such a pronouncement. In fact, the Catechism presents both marriage and the religious life equally a paths of salvation.

As a married person, one’s spouse and children are not obstacles to salvation. Quite the contrary! As a married man, if I reach heaven it’ll only be because I fully lived my vocation by manifesting the love of Christ to my wife and children. It’s my job to make sure they see and experience Christ’s love and mercy through me. That’s my calling.
 
Marriage requiers three personS: a couple and witness. now we have a problem. In Genesis we only have two persons. Thus they could not marry each other. How then could they marry?
I have been told that it goes against natural law not to ask someone to seek out a witness.
It must be extremely unatural and evil for a couple not seek out a witness.
Also nowadays the Church talk about that you must be above a certain age to marry. Does natural law say anything about it or is this more like a rule/law for Sacramental marriage?
Also, a brother and sister cannot be married. Does natural law say anything about it? I mean, in the beginning we had incest so natural law cannot be against it.
 
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