Marriage

C E L E B R A T I N G T H E  S A C R A M E N T  O F  M A T R I M O N Y
When the Catholic Church teaches that marriage is a sacrament, it is saying that your relationship expresses in a unique way the unbreakable bond of love between Christ and his people. Like the other six sacraments of the Church, marriage is a sign or symbol which reveals the Lord Jesus and through which his divine life and love are communicated.In a sacramental marriage, God’s love becomes present to you in your total union and also flows through you to your family and community. By your permanent, faithful and exclusive giving to each other you, as a couple, reveal something of God’s unconditional love.The sacrament of Christian marriage involves your entire life as you journey together through the ups and downs of marriage and become more able to give to and receive from each other. Your life becomes sacramental to the extent that you cooperate withGod’s action in your life and that you see yourselves as living “in Christ” and Christ living and acting in your relationship, attitudes and actions.In marriage, the grace of this sacrament brings to you both the particular help you need to be faithful to each other and to be good parents. It also helps a you to serve others beyond your immediate family and to show the community that a loving and lasting marriage is both desirable and possible.Pope Paul VI wrote: “By it [the Sacrament of Marriage] husband and wife are strengthened and…consecrated for the faithful accomplishment of their proper duties, for the carrying out of their proper vocation even to perfection, and the Christian witness which is proper to them before the whole world”

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Scripture Readings for Marriage A SELECTION OF READINGS FOR WEDDINGS.pdf
Sample Text for Marriage Booklet Wedding of N.pdf