Concerning the Sacraments of the Church and how they act as a channel of Grace in our lives, this talk on Marriage is the thirty sixth in a series of lectures on the Catholic Catechism recorded in 1965 by Archbishop Fulton J Sheen in the privacy of his own study and first broadcast under the title 'Life is Worth Living'. A master communicator, Fulton Sheen recorded this insightful overview of the teachings of the Holy Catholic Church.
Tension between a man and woman are to be expected in married life, not because of a defect in them but because the tensions are part of our fallen human nature. There can be a tug between wanting and not wanting love. There can be a tension between wanting to be with another and at the same time feeling alone. Children fill up this emptiness and become the new bond of unity outside a mother and father. Another tension is between the unending ecstasy of love and the way love actually turns out in marriage. Separating sex from love causes tension. Love is directed to someone else, while sex without love is directed to self-satisfaction.
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