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I think the best place to begin an immense subject, is to ask ourselves, why did Christ, when He came into the world, institute the Sacrament of Matrimony? After all, marriage itself was ... To realize that, that the Sacrament of Matrimony is real! It does give grace – thank God that Christ instituted this Sacrament!
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And, though they still have a nominal authority over the sacrament because they believe in the Sacrament of Matrimony, why they gave such power to the State is the single main reason why now, for over seven hundred ... But, the duties of the married state are so demanding that they require special graces only God can give,
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THE LIVING SACRAMENT -- MATRIMONY A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality. Matrimony is a sacrament and as such it is a sign to the world of the invisible God living in our midst - the living God who bears fruit in the lives of two people. His obligations to his family require that he both give and receive.
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www.ewtn.com/library/MARRIAGE/MA3.TXT
www.ewtn.com/library/MARRIAGE/MA3.TXT
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ARTICLE 7; THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY ... 1627 The consent consists in a "human act by which the partners mutually give themselves to each other": "I take you to be my wife" - "I take you to be my husband."126 This consent that binds the spouses to each other finds its fulfillment in the two "becoming one flesh."127...
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www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p2s2c3a7.htm
www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p2s2c3a7.htm
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PREPARATION ; FOR THE SACRAMENT ; OF MARRIAG ... It makes them give praise to the Lord, it sanctifies the conjugal union and the life of the Christian faithful who celebrate it, and gives rise to the Christian family, the domestic church, the "first and living cell of society" (Apostolicam Actuositatem, 11),
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CANON I.-If any one saith, that matrimony is not truly and properly one of the seven sacraments of the evangelic law, (a sacrament) instituted by Christ the Lord; but that it has been invented by men in the Church;
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The Council of Florence, in the Decree for the Armenians, had already declared: "The seventh sacrament is matrimony, which is a figure of the union of Christ, and the Church, according to the words of the Apostle: This is a great sacrament, but I speak in Christ and in the Church.'" And Innocent IV, in the profession...
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Working in RCIA, this was always hard news to give: Yes, ... And then there are those who don't really intend what the sacrament means (I am thinking of the man who pointed out that at the time of his marriage, ... While a reading of the Catechism made clear to me that it was not holy matrimony at all, we still had to put in the...
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What does the Sacrament of Matrimony give them? What did the Sacrament of Matrimony do for you? How did you get your father and mother? What made it possible for you to have a home? What makes homes happy? What kind of home is it when all love one another?
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