Lesson Fourteen in Christ and the Sacraments, with Fr Aquinas Guilbeau, OP, MDiv, STL, STD, Assistant Professor of Moral Theology, Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and Prior of the Priory of the Immaculate Conception.
Aquinas taught that, as a sacrament, marriage is a remedy for sin and a cause of grace for the spouses which conforms them to the passion of Christ, not according to its pain, but according to its charity.
Marriage therefore enables the Christian husband and Christian wife, by grace, to love each other, salvifically. Not as the savior of the other, but in imitation of the savior of both: bestowing on each other the love with which Christ loves the Church.
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