“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it”
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.”
Ephesians 5, 25; 31-32
The Second Vatican Council teaches that “all Christians in whatever state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity” (Constitution on the Church, n. 40). The call to marriage is a particular way of living the universal call to holiness given to every Christian in the Sacrament of Baptism.