"Conjugal
love involves a totality, in which all the elements of the person enter -
appeal of the body and instinct, power of feeling and affectivity, aspiration
of the spirit and of will. It aims at a deeply personal unity, a unity that,
beyond union in one flesh, leads to forming one heart and soul; it demands
indissolubility and faithfulness in definitive mutual giving; and it is open to
fertility. In a word it is a question of the normal characteristics of all
natural conjugal love, but with a new significance which not only purifies and
strengthens them, but raises them to the extent of making them the expression
of specifically Christian values."
The
love of the spouses requires, of its very nature, the unity and indissolubility
of the spouses' community of persons, which embraces their entire life:
"so they are no longer two, but one flesh." They
"are called to grow continually in their communion through day-to-day
fidelity to their marriage promise of total mutual self-giving." This
human communion is confirmed, purified, and completed by communion in Jesus
Christ, given through the sacrament of Matrimony. It is deepened by lives of
the common faith and by the Eucharist received together.
"The
unity of marriage, distinctly recognized by our Lord, is made clear in the
equal personal dignity which must be accorded to man and wife in mutual and
unreserved affection."
Polygamy is contrary to
conjugal love which is undivided and exclusive.
FROM: Catechism of the Catholic Church
Truly the ideal!
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