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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Couple desires to be with one another as husband and wife and both are in the state of grace.28 They must also be open to the possibility of children, although this does not necessarily need to be the foremost thought on their minds. If one of the parties is merely desiring to be with his or her spouse out of concupiscence but yet would not ever go to another person who is not their spouse, he or she would be guilty of a venial sin. If one of the parties is willing to seek a remedy for his concupiscence from another not his spouse, he is guilty of a mortal sin. If nature is guided by reason, the act will be virtuous and if it is not, the marriage act will not be virtuous but in fact, an act of lust.29 In addition, as has been shown previously in this essay, it is necessary to the nature of marriage that it be indissoluble until one of the spouses dies. Christ made it very clear while on earth that if a husband leaves his wife and goes to another woman, he is guilty of adultery and the same applies to the wife. Only if the spouse is unchaste can the other leave him or her but under no circumstances, while both of the spouses are alive, is either to remarry. "But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting for the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery."30 It is clear, therefore that husband and wife are to remain with one another until death do them part, even after the children are grown up and living on their own. A spouse's obligation, then, is
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