The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) Day 309: Faithful and Fruitful Marriage (2025)
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Nov 5, 2025 Exploring the language of married love, the discussion highlights total self-giving and fidelity. Fr. Mike discusses how marital love mirrors God's own love, emphasizing its free, faithful, and fruitful nature. Contraception is critiqued for contradicting the essence of marital commitment, while natural family planning is affirmed. The significance of vows, openness to life, and the importance of mutual support in marriage are underscored, alongside the moral implications of procreation and the role of the state.
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Marriage As An Irrevocable Covenant
- Marriage is a covenant of irrevocable personal consent where spouses give themselves definitively and totally to one another.
- This covenant makes the marital bond unique, indissoluble, and ordered to lifelong fidelity.
Sexual Act Is Ordered To Life
- Conjugal love is naturally ordered to fruitfulness so each marital act remains open to procreation.
- The Church links the unitive and procreative meanings of the marital act as inseparable and divinely established.
Space Births With Responsible Motives
- Regulate births for just reasons but ensure motivations align with responsible parenthood, not selfishness.
- Evaluate choices by objective moral criteria that respect mutual self-giving and parenthood.
