Term
| Describe Human Sexuality as a fundamental component of the person. |
|
Definition
| o Sexuality gives the human person the characteristics of which, on the biological, psychological, and spiritual level, make that person a man or woman. There fore it affects all aspects of the human person. |
|
|
Term
| Describe Human Sexuality as the basis of love between man and woman. |
|
Definition
| o This enables a man and woman to have a union. Human sexuality provides the likeness, the common good, the co-subjectivity, and self-gift, and communion. Sex is the symbol of love. |
|
|
Term
| Describe Human Sexuality as procreative. |
|
Definition
| o Human sexuality is procreative, meaning that procreation is the primary end in sex itself. To call procreation the primary end, implies that there are other ends. Primary also defines the reality and allows the secondary ends to flow from it. |
|
|
Term
| Describe Human Sexuality as a source of satisfaction for a person. |
|
Definition
| o Pleasure, intimacy, and satisfaction are not ends, but are accompaniments to the ends. If pleasure is not shared then it is not satisfying. It is disordered to pursue it as an end in itself. It must only be an accompaniment to the ends. |
|
|
Term
| Describe Human Sexuality as inherently sacred. |
|
Definition
| o Because it is a sacrament, it has a sacramental mentality. Man and woman point to the love of God. Its sacramental as it is a symbol of something beyond itself. |
|
|
Term
| What about the christian mystery reveals something about sexuality? In what way? |
|
Definition
| o The incarnation tells us truth about sexuality. He takes on sexuality. Jesus shows that our sexuality is more than a bodily act. It is what it means to be human. Christ was sexual, but he was not compelled to sexual activity. Also, the resurrection of the body shows the goodness of the body. |
|
|
Term
| What is the symbolism of sexuality? |
|
Definition
| . Sexuality is symbolic of love, typically of conjugal love. The reason is because sex involves an attraction, and attraction is the basis of love. The sexual act is the material joining of the bodies, and from that, conception can occur, which gives love a common purpose and a self gift. |
|
|
Term
| What is a conventional sign? |
|
Definition
| o A sign is a reality that “points to” a second reality beyond the first. It brings you beyond itself. A Conventional sign though, has sign value by human agreement. Without humanity it would not have meaning. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| o An image has a sign-value by resemblance between a material reality and a second material reality. It is more universal than a sign. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| It has sign-value by resemblance. You can go from the material to a spiritual/immaterial reality. A sacrament is a symbol. Symbols transcend time, place, and culture e.g. Christ gave parables for this reason. |
|
|
Term
| Why are symbols valuable? |
|
Definition
| o Symbols cannot be exhausted and they are very powerful means of helping us understand something. You can constantly go back and reference them. God uses symbols to reveal himself to us and to teach us about ourselves. He speaks to us in this language because he created us to respond in this kind of language. He also wishes to tell us things beyond our range of comprehension. |
|
|
Term
| Define the spousal meaning of the body? |
|
Definition
| From Vatican II: 1. Someone willed for his or her own sake, which is willing the intrinsic value of the person for their sake, not for our own sake. 2. They are perfected through self-gift, both the man and the woman in the giving and in the receiving. |
|
|
Term
| What is the language of the body? |
|
Definition
| o The body is able to communicate the love that is taking place in marriage. The language of the body expresses the “vows” of marriage. The vows say “I give myself to you for the whole of my life. “ This is what the body says at the moment of sexual intercourse. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The concept of sexual lies and the distortion of sexual symbols. Sexual intercourse that is not an act of conjugal love produces a sexual ‘lie’ because the body says something on behalf of the person that is simply not true. |
|
|
Term
| What themes enable us to distinguish between Christian sexuality and neo-pagan/secular view? |
|
Definition
Sex is…
1. fundamental component of the person vs. trait of the body to which gender is subject
2. the basis of love between man/women vs. expresses love
3. what man and woman do to become mother and father vs. what people do for satisfaction
4. a source of satisfaction accompaniment to marital act vs. can transmit life, but merely as a consequence.
5. is inherently sacred vs. is inherently sub personal |
|
|
Term
| Describe chastity as a virtue. |
|
Definition
| o Virtue is a firm disposition to do the good. Chastity is the virtue that guarantees our sexuality will reflect the relationship of Christ and the Church. Chastity as a virtue is to do what practical reason indicates, in terms of the natural law, and conscience. |
|
|
Term
| Describe chastity as integration. |
|
Definition
| The meaning of chastity is a virtue that protects, compliments, and frees love. It affirms the value of the persons, and raises to the personal level, all the values of the body and sexuality. Chastity is integration. Concupiscence is disintegration. |
|
|
Term
| Explain the relationship and lack-there-of with chastity, continence, lust, and concupiscence. |
|
Definition
| Continence is the ability to resist, and direct the sexual urge. Not containing this urge is Lust. Continence is seeing the good, chastity is loving the good. |
|
|
Term
| What are the four hallmarks of chastity? |
|
Definition
1. Experience the spousal meaning of the body
2. Experience inner freedom
3. Disposition to procreation/union
4. Disposition to truthfulness |
|
|
Term
| What are the four hallmarks of concupiscence? |
|
Definition
1. Loss of the spousal meaning of the body. That means the “body” is something to be used
2. Loss of the inner freedom. It’s slavery to the passions
3. Disposition to egotistical satisfaction
4. Disposition to sexual lies. The body says “I give myself to you for the whole of my life.” But you aren’t really doing that |
|
|
Term
| What are the three manifestations of chastity? |
|
Definition
1. Naked without shame. Naked does NOT equal the absence of clothing. Naked is the presentation of the spousal meaning of the body. Naked is granting access to the body, which requires trust.
2. A balance between arousal and emotion. An arousal is the response of the body to the body. Emotion is a response of the heart to the person.
3. Ethos of the gift/of Redemption. Ethos is the inner form of morality. A chaste person has such an Ethos that makes concupiscence so far off and bizarre. |
|
|
Term
| Explain "responsible parenthood". |
|
Definition
- Responsible parenthood means the knowledge and respect of their functions.
- Responsible Parenthood is that necessary dominion that reason and will must exercise over them.
- Responsible parenthood is exercised by the reason to raise a numerous family to avoid a new birth in the time being.
- The responsible exercise of parenthood is husband and wife, recognizing their own duties, towards God, themselves, the family, society, in a correct hierarchy of values. |
|
|
Term
| Describe contraception as rendering procreation impossible. |
|
Definition
| Contraception refers to a moral object, a choice. It exist inside the human will. Contraception is willing the elimination of the generative power of sex. |
|
|
Term
| Why is contraception immoral? |
|
Definition
| Man does not have unlimited dominion over the body. Especially the generative element. Contraceptive sex creates sexual lies. A partial and manipulated version of self-gift. |
|
|
Term
| What is the underlying anthropological principle behind contraception? |
|
Definition
| o Contraception is concupiscent, treating the body as sub-personal. There is a loss of inner freedom. (4 Hallmarks of Concupiscence) |
|
|
Term
| How is contraception unchaste? |
|
Definition
| It is unchaste since its, a distortion of the sexual act, concupiscent, a sexual lie, etc... |
|
|
Term
| Whats the difference between contraception and periodic continence? |
|
Definition
| o They differ with regard to moral object, even though they often correspond with regard to intention, or end. Thus, they are essentially different. Contraception communicates the opposite of love. “I’m not willing to wait ten days to have sex with you.” |
|
|
Term
| What are two irreconcilable concepts of the human person and human sexuality? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What are the objects for contraception? (3) |
|
Definition
1. To render procreation impossible. To alter oneself/the sexual act.
2. Choice embodies the hallmarks of concupiscence. The couple dominates the body inappropriately
3. Neither procreation or union is achieved. |
|
|
Term
| What are the objects for NFP? (4) |
|
Definition
1. To abstain from sex when necessary, for as long as necessary. The woman’s body, tells when and how long they must abstain.
2. Deliberate choice, or exercisable.
3. Certain act of virtue.
4. Disposed to both procreation and union. |
|
|
Term
| Define "serious motive" and its relation with PC/NFP. |
|
Definition
| Serious motive or grave reasons demands the virtue of prudence when concerning reasons like living conditions, medical reasons, or financial reasons. It is up to the couple to decide whether or not it is a grave reason. If bringing new life could cause harm to the couple or the child, then it would be imprudent. |
|
|
Term
| Describe the anthropological and moral criteria by which we evaluate medical intervention in the transmission of life. |
|
Definition
| The human body is not be used as an object, or a means to conception. The body must not be used in ANY way against the natural finality of the body. The body must not be dominated. The finality of the body is not conception, it is Procreation. Science should be used to highlight the good of the person, and the personal dignity of the body. |
|
|
Term
| Explain why no one has a right to a child. |
|
Definition
| o This would reduce the child to an object. Every child has a right to be the fruit of a specific act, of conjugal love of his parents. Any medical technique that replaces the conjugal act are immoral. While those that assist the conjugal act are called to exercise prudence. |
|
|
Term
| Explain Conjugal fidelity and chastity. |
|
Definition
| • Chastity is the basis of conjugal fidelity. Sexual union between two persons, requires a special kind of love, that can only exist in marriage, for the whole of one’s life. |
|
|
Term
| Explain monogamy and indissolubility. |
|
Definition
| Monogamy is the only proper context for marriage since it implies indissolubility. • The Indissolubility of marriage finds its roots in the plan of God. Marriage is sign of God’s love, thus, we have no right to break the bond. |
|
|
Term
| What are the threats to fidelity and the contemporary problem of divorce? |
|
Definition
1. Adultery can be committed in the heart and the mind, even if you don’t act on it, you break the vows in your sexual interest with someone else. 2. Pornography, which is any media that portrays the human body as the product of erotic desire, or as a means to achieve this erotic desire.
3. De Facto Unions: Having habitual sexual relationship without the commitment, without vows or marriage. |
|
|
Term
| Discuss the impediments of marriage. |
|
Definition
| Impediments would be facts that cause the marriage to be invalid: age impediment, impotence, pre-existing marriage, abduction or detention, consanguinity, affinity, disparrity of cult, holy orders, crime, public propriety |
|
|
Term
| What does Christ teach about divorce? |
|
Definition
| Christ says that anyone who divorces his wife and takes another commits adultery. |
|
|
Term
| Explain absolute indissolubility vs. intrinsic indissolubility. |
|
Definition
| Absolute indissolubility is possesed by a sacramental, valid, and consumated marriage so that no power or reason other than death can end it. Intrisic is possesed by any valid non-Christian marriage so that no act of the will by the man or woman can dissolve the bond. |
|
|
Term
| Explain the different conditions for an absolute indissoluble marriage. |
|
Definition
| The conditions of an absolutely indissoluble marriage = valid, consummated, sacramental. |
|
|
Term
| Explain the declaration of nullity. |
|
Definition
| o A judgment on the part of Church officials that no true or valid marriage took place between two given persons, though ostensibly a marriage was celebrated through the statement of vows. |
|
|
Term
| Define the Petrine Privilege, Pauline Privilege, and seperation. |
|
Definition
- The Petrine Privilege: A non-consummated marriage may be dissolved by the divine authority invested in the Pope.
- Pauline Privilege: A non-Sacramental marriage may be dissolved by the divine authority invested in the Pope.
- Separation: It is possible under certain conditions. During a separation husband and wife no longer share the common life proper to marriage but they are not free to “remarry.” |
|
|
Term
| Define a sacrament and explain how its related to God's covenant. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What is the sacramental significance of Christian marriage? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Explain the "sacramentum tantum", "res et sacramentum", and "res tantum" of marriage. |
|
Definition
- Sacramentum Tantum: “sacred sign” Form = self-giving, Matter = the persons personal communion, There is a presence of Jesus in the love, and they participate in that love.
- Res et Sacramentum: What happens/where is the sacrament “Contained and signified.” In the communion of the persons, Love signifies Christ in the Church
- Res Tantum: This is the grace which is conferred. Sanctifying grace is conferred. Sacramental grace, a perfection of the love, of the spouses, and a confirmation of the bond |
|
|
Term
| Explain, in relation to sacramental grace, the perfection of love and strengthening of the bond. |
|
Definition
Perfection of love = taking away the hardness of heart. The grace comes at the fulfillment of the vows, and when the vows are fulfilled, that is what brings sacramental grace.
Strengthening of the bond = a deeper sense of union and trust. The grace given helps foster a deep trust rooted in love. |
|
|
Term
| What is the relationship between the indissolubility and the sacramentality of marriage. |
|
Definition
| Since Marriage is a symbol of Christ’s marriage in the Church, it cannot be dissolved. |
|
|
Term
| Explain the relationship between baptism and marriage. |
|
Definition
| Marriage is rooted in the graces of baptism, the Eucharist, and Penance. The way that marriage is so closely connected to Christ’s love for the Church links us intimately to baptism since through it we enter into the Church. |
|
|
Term
| Explain the nature of marriage prep. |
|
Definition
| Developing a foundation for a life-long relationship, the bigger the building, the greater the foundation. Marriage is the greatest human relationship, and needs a great foundation. |
|
|
Term
| Explain the stages of marriage prep. |
|
Definition
1. Remote preparation. This begins at early childhood. The love your parents have when they bring you into existence is formative.
2. Proximate preparation. Adolescents, this is the arrival of the sexual urge, in a new found independence and maturity.
3. Immediate preparation. This comes between engagement and the exchange of the vows. |
|
|
Term
| Discuss dating and engagement. |
|
Definition
| Dating is very much a cultural reality. Not cross-cultural like marriage. Dating should draw upon something that is objectively and universally good, love, friendship. This love can be very minimal at first and in the process of growth. Engagement marks a new level in the relationship. This is a legally binding promise. It’s not a vow to marry. A future oriented promise. Here there is grounds for an increased intimacy, both psychologically and physically. Seek to grow in more knowledge of the other. |
|
|
