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Importance and Dignity of the Sacrament of Matrimony
Married Christians, in virtue of the sacrament of matrimony, signify and share
in the mystery of that unity and fruitful love which exists between Christ and
his Church. They help each other to attain to holiness in their married life and
in the rearing and education of their children; and they have their own special
gift among the people of God.
Marriage arises in the covenant of marriage, or irrevocable consent, which each
partner freely bestows on and accepts from the other. This intimate union and
the good of the children impose total fidelity on each of them and argue for an
unbreakable oneness between them. Christ the Lord raised this union to the
dignity of a sacrament so that it might more clearly recall and more easily
reflect his own unbreakable union with his Church.
Christian couples, therefore, nourish and develop their marriage by undivided
affection, which wells up from the foundation of divine love, while, in a
merging of human and divine love, they remain faithful in body and in mind, in
good times as in bad.
(Taken from “Rite of Marriage”)
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