In his catechesis Man and Woman He Created Them, St. John Paul II reveals marriage and family as a sacrament of communion between God and humanity. The truth of the nuptial mystery (sacramentum magnum) and the living out of that truth in human experience (ethos) form the image of the spirituality of marriage and family. Created in the image and likeness of God and consecrat-ed in the love of Christ and his Bride, the Church, men and women live the full and fruitful gift of themselves. In this way they don’t close themselves to what’s natural, but they build the domestic Church, where they become truly themselves. The Holy Spirit permeates the spouses with the grace of the sacrament, so they can form „one flesh” and build the communion of th...