Occasionally I will have personal revelations which lead to a deeper understanding of what I already know. I had one of those today in relation to the topic of the Church's teaching on the use of contraceptives.
We receive the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist under the accidents of bread and wine. The bread and the wine are physical expressions of the Eucharist. In the same way, the act of conjugal love within a marriage is the physical expression of the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony that couples married within the Church receive on their wedding day.
What is asked of married couples in the Church is that we allow God into our marriages in the same way he is present in the Eucharist. The Eucharist only becomes what it is when God enters into the bread and wine. The marital act is an expression of a sacramental marriage only when we allow God in freely without attempts to frustrate His will.
Speaking as an engaged woman preparing to enter into the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, I must take this to heart in all its truth to prepare for a deeper understanding of my future marriage, and those already in marriages must answer to this and live out their marriages in the way the Church teaches and thus the way God wills.
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