Catechism of the Catholic Church

822 Index directed toward the salvation of others, 1534 good of the spouses, 1660 as man’s vocation, 372, 1604‑05 procreation and education of offspring, 1652‑53, 2366 transmission of life, 372, 2363 indissolubility of marriage, 1644‑45 fidelity of conjugal love, 1646‑48 the marriage bond, 1639‑40 marriage in the words of Jesus, 1614‑15 matrimonial consent, 1625 as an essential element, 1626 as the foundation of the indissolubility of marriage, 1601, 1627, 2367 nullity of marriage, 1629 as a requirement of conjugal love, 1644 significance and nature of matrimonial consent, 1627‑28 transmission of faith in the domestic Church, 1656 unity and marriage in the Old Law, 1610‑11 as a sacrament, 1601‑58 celebration of, 1621‑24, 1627 as consecration, 1535 ecclesiastical form of celebrating, 1630‑31 grace of the sacrament of, 1641‑42 main effects of, 1638‑40, 2365 mixed marriage and disparity of cult, 1633‑37 preparation for, 1632 raised to the dignity of a sacrament, 1601 offenses against the dignity of, 2380‑91 adultery, 2380‑81 divorce, 2382‑86 free union and concubinage, 2390 incest, 2388 polygamy, 1645, 2387 sexual relations contracted before marriage, 2391 Marriages, trial , 2391 Married couple fidelity and, 2364 harmony of the married couple and physical complementarity, 2333 human sterility and, 2374, 2377 marriage and, 1603, 1624, 1636, 1642, 2363 Martyrs acts of, 2474 behavior of, 2113 significance of martyrdom, 2473 veneration of, 957, 1173 Mary Christ’s Mother by the power of the Holy Spirit, 437, 456, 484‑86, 723‑26 the Church and active example and type of the Church, 967 Church reaches towards perfection in, 829 place in the mystery of the Church, 773, 963‑72 spiritual motherhood, 501 Mary in the economy of salvation Annunciation, 484, 490 assent, 148, 490, 494 Assumption, 966 conception by the Holy Spirit, 437, 456, 484‑86, 495, 723 the Immaculate Conception, 490‑93 mediatrix of grace, 969 predestination of, 488‑89, 508 preserved from sin, 411 virginity, 496‑98, 502‑07 visitation to Elizabeth as God’s visitation to His people, 717 works of the Holy Spirit, 721‑26 Mary as exemplar of holiness, 2030 of hope, 64 of obedience of faith, 144, 148‑49, 494 of prayer in the “Fiat” and “Magnificat,” 2617, 2619 of union with the Son, 964 and witness of faith, 165, 273 titles of Mary Advocate, Help, Benefactress, Mediatrix, 969 Assumed into heaven, 966 Eschatological icon of the Church, 967, 972