By Mario and Paola Martinez
Marriage is a vocation in which the intimate love of spouses reflects the love that God has for his Church. This love is exclusive, indissoluble, and expressed profoundly in the relationship between a husband and his wife. The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes this love in a beautiful way: “Conjugal love involves a totality, in which all the elements of the person enter – appeal of the body, and instinct, power and feeling and affectivity, aspiration of the spirit and of will. It aims at a deeply personal unity, a unity that beyond union in one flesh, leads to forming one heart and one soul; it demands indissolubility and faithfulness, in definitive mutual giving; and it is open to fertility…” (CCC 1643).
Do you remember a catechist in your life that helped or is helping you learn about the Catholic faith and the teachings of the Church? What memories come to you as you remember that person? I can assure you that most of us have memories of our CCD (an old term that dates back to the 1500s), Religious Education or catechetical formation, and those catechists who, by volunteering their time and gifts, impacted our faith.