Spouses not only image the love of God with in the Trinity; they also image the love between God and all humanity, made visible in the love of Christ and the Church. By virtue of their Baptisms, the marriage of Christians is a sacrament. That means it’s a living sign that truly communicates and participates in the union of Christ the Church. The marriage vows lived out in the spouses’ “One Flesh” union constitutes this living sign.
Paraphrasing St. Paul: For this reason a man will leave father and mother and cling to his bride, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a profound mystery, and it refers to Christ and the Church . Christ left his Father in heaven. He left the home of his mother on earth - to give up his body for his Bride (Catholic Church) so that we might become “one flesh” with him.
Where do we become “one flesh” with Christ? Most specifically in the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the sacramental consummation of the marriage between Christ and the Church. And when we receive the body of our heavenly Bridegroom into our own, just like a bride we conceive new life in us - God’s very own life. As Christ said, “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you” (Jn 6:53).
Since the “one flesh” communion of man and wife foreshadowed the Eucharistic communion of Christ and the Church right from the beginning, John Paul II speaks of marriage as the “Primordial Sacrament.” Let’s pause for a moment to let this reality sink in. Of all the ways that God chooses to reveal his life and love in the created world, John Paul II is saying, marriage - enacted and consummated by sexual union - is the most fundamental.
St. Paul wasn’t kidding when he said this is a “profound mystery.” Could God have made our sexuality any more important than this? Any more beautiful? Any more glorious? God gave us sexual desire itself to be the power to love as he loves, so that we could participate in the divine life and fulfill the very meaning of our being and existence.
Sounds great you say, but it’s a far cry from the way sex play itself out in the experience of real human beings. Yes, it is. The historical abuse of women at the hands of men; the tragedy of rape and other HEINOUS SEX CRIMES, even against children; AIDS and a host of other sexually transmitted diseases; unwed mothers; “fatherless” children; abortion; adultery; skyrocketing divorce rates; prostitution; a multibillion-dollar pornography industry; the general cloud of shame and guilt that hangs over sexual matters - all of this paints a very different picture from the one St. Paul and John Paul II give us.
The picture it paints, in fact, is the tragedy of human sinfulness and our fall from God’s intention for our sexuality “in the beginning”.
2007-02-03 13:17:44
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answered by Giggly Giraffe 7
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12-year olds should not have sex with anyone, period. Even in biblical days they didn't marry until after puberty (one reason was the high death rate of both mother and babies with extremely young mothers), and I don't know of any 12-year olds are are sexually mature enough to give birth. People need to take responsibility for their kids and teach them instead of just letting them run wild. 12-year old girls shouldn't be alone with boys in the first place.
2007-02-03 13:19:04
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answered by Anonymous
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Neither. faith, regrettably, relatively has no longer something to do with technology, nor with drugs, and the real answer, the scientific answer, is not any to the two a sort of innovations. a woman that age in basic terms isn't sufficiently bodily mature for intercourse, interior of or exterior of a marriage. neither is a woman that age sufficiently emotionally mature for intercourse. whilst intercourse coaching is taught, in an age appropriate trend, from kindergarten on up (as in Denmark, as an occasion), fewer teenagers are sexually lively and there cost of teenager pregnancies drops precipitously. the optimal cost of teenager pregnancies in the greater international, in fact, is in the U. S., the place intercourse coaching has extraordinarily much thoroughly been removed from the curriculum via a team of narrow-minded people who're petrified of the international.
2016-10-01 09:33:16
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answered by ? 4
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Really weird that you see only these two prospects for twelve year old girls. You may need some kind of help.
From a Christian perspective it is best for a twelve year girl to stay in her family and be allowed to be a kid until she grows up.
2007-02-03 13:37:49
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answered by Anonymous
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Her husband from a religious stand point, but from a realistic view of todays world, to not marry until you know it is the guy you really want. In the bible they married young because thier lifespan was short, but I think things are different today with many people living beyond 80 years instead of just 30 or 40.
2007-02-03 13:10:27
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answered by anamaradancer 3
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This girl needs counseling, and she needs love from her parents. Being that I was twelve not too long ago, I know why that happens. Kids are reduced to finding love from something that does not love them. They are thrusted into a society that has no morals. Kids these days are raised by themselves, or their best friends, (a.k.a "parents") and it's awfully sad.
The best thing: abstinence.
2007-02-03 13:18:22
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answered by tahirih.luvs2sew 3
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A twelve-year old having permissible sex is wrong, whether married or not. In this day, 12 is not of legal age.
2007-02-03 13:09:16
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answered by arewethereyet 7
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Nether she brakes God's law ether way.
God Say's not to have sex out of marriage
God Say's not to break mans laws as long as it don't go against his laws.
And where is you mind at thinking of these kind of thoughts.
2007-02-03 13:22:05
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answered by Anonymous
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Sex within marriage is better than sex outside of marriage. Whether or it 'happens' or not is immaterial.
2007-02-03 13:11:58
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answered by Dysthymia 6
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She's not ready for sex at 12, whether it's with some twerpy boyfriend as some radical Muslim weirdo.
My God, I wish some people would quit treating women like objects.
2007-02-03 13:13:24
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answered by Anonymous
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