I misteri del cristianesimo (2ᵃ ed.)

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Fr. Jaki, Les tendances nouvelles de l’ecclésiologie ch. 4, §1, §§2 (pp. 212-3, PDF pp. 205-6), quotes Scheeben "§85. Il mistero o sacramentalità del Matrimonio cristiano." (PDF pp. 471-85):

For Scheeben Christian marriage most faithfully translates the union of Christ and his Church, the ecclesiological significance of which he developed at length. “What is a Christian?,” he wonders. “A member that the baptismal character introduced into the mystical Body of the Man-God, to which he now belongs in body and soul”42. In other words, the Christian is conditioned in all his existence by the bonds which attach him to his divine Head; he is an organ of it; he can only act by virtue of his union with him. Nowhere does his mystical union with his Head transform his natural activities as much as in marriage. The union of the spouses “becomes an organic member of the grand and varied union of Christ with his Church; this member is enshrined in this mysterious alliance, penetrated and carried by it”43.

§85 also quoted in Leeming, S.J., Principles of Sacramental Theology PDF p. 431.

The translator, Gorlani, added some footnotes to Casti Connubii (1930, well after Scheeben).