The Secret about Sex and Holiness
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As St. Thomas Aquinas writes: "As often as a husband and wife enter into the sexual embrace in a state of grace, they are growing in grace and in glory."
Today, Fr. Mike delves into one of the greatest secrets of Catholic morality and the sacrament of Matrimony, namely that when spouses share the marital embrace that they are growing in holiness.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Spoiler, not spoiler, heads up. |
| 0:03.0 | This is gonna be a PG-13 video, maybe PG-15. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm not sure you'd be the judge, |
| 0:08.7 | but very good. |
| 0:09.7 | We're gonna talk about sex. |
| 0:10.5 | So whatever that means for you and your family, |
| 0:13.8 | just fair warning, here we go. |
| 0:24.0 | How many of these father-mikens? |
| 0:25.0 | And this is a century percent. |
| 0:26.3 | So we have the seven sacraments, right? |
| 0:28.1 | Seven sacraments, right? |
| 0:29.1 | We have those seven sacraments, |
| 0:30.5 | our three sacraments of initiation, |
| 0:32.1 | baptism, confirmation, holy ukris, |
| 0:34.2 | the two sacraments of vocation, |
| 0:35.7 | the two sacraments of healing, |
| 0:36.7 | unointing of the sick and confession. |
| 0:39.3 | Okay, campers, what is a sacrament? |
| 0:41.6 | I ask this of my marriage prep couples |
| 0:43.8 | every time I make with them, |
| 0:45.2 | every time I make with them, |
| 0:46.0 | but at least once in the course of our meeting. |
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