The sacrament of marriage is a divine institution given to men and women that they might be “cooperators with the love of God the Creator” (GS 50) and so attain their supernatural end (GS 48). The primary means of their cooperation are the love and support they give to one...

The Eucharist is the “heart and summit of the Church’s life,” since through it Christ “pours out” on his people the “graces of salvation” won by the sacrifice of his life “offered once for all on the cross” (Catechism, 1407). In every Eucharistic celebration, the very sacrifice of Christ on...