Afterward the woman also died. For the seven had her a wife. Christ not only reaffirms his teaching on the resurrection of the dead, but he deepens our understanding of the marriage vocation as well.
Marriage is an earthly vocation.
There each will behold God face to face. The life-long covenant for mutual and sincere gift of self in marriage is for husband and wife a prelude to and help toward the eternal happiness of heaven. In this world man and wife become one flesh in their life-long covenant, and may, if God so bless them, be fruitful in their openness to new life. 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. 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.