Part — Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis

Fourth Part: On the Obligations of Spouses

936.

936. A threefold obligation or mutual office immediately arises in spouses from matrimony, as is clear from the very nature of matrimony and from its ends:

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1° of rendering the conjugal debt,

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2° of establishing the companionship of bed and of cohabitation,

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3° of furnishing mutual love and assistance to one another.

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