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3. The 'Goods' of Marriage and the Gift of Self By means of the sacrament of Marriage, married couples receive from Christ the Redeemer the gift of grace that confirms and elevates the communion of faithful and fruitful love. The holiness to which they are called is above all a grace given. The persons called to live in the married state realize their vocation to love19 in the full gift of self, which adequately expresses the language of the body. 20 From the mutual gift of the spouses comes, as its fruit, the gift of life to the children, who are a sign and crowning of their spousal love. 21 Contraception, directly opposed to the transmission of life, betrays and falsifies the self-sacrificing love proper to marriage, "altering its value of total self-giving"22 and contradicting God's design of love, in which it has been granted to married couples to participate.
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19) 3 Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Past. Const. on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, December 7, 1965, n. 24. 20) John Paul II, Apost. Exhort. Familiaris Consortio, November 22, 1981, n. 32. 21) Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 2378; cf. John Paul II, Letter to Families Gratissimam Sane, February 2, 1994, n. 11. 22) 3 John Paul II, Apost. Exhort. Familiaris Consortio, November 22, 1981, n. 32. |
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