Marriage Is A Sacrament

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because the Lord have kept her from having children” (1 Sm 1:6).
Marriage was seen and understood to be holy by the Jews because they see the goodness and the presence of God in ordinary events of daily life holy. It was also seen as a sign of the covenant of love between God and Israel, where God is the lover and Israel is his bride (Hos 3:1-5).
Much of the teaching on marriage during the first century is based from the Old Testament. For example, Jesus quotes the Old Testament in affirming the divine origins of marriage: “So then, what God has united, man must not divide” (Mt 19:6). Jesus also taught that there are no grounds for divorce. Using God’s Word spoken in creation as his authority, he teaches that his followers who marry are bound as “one flesh” in a union that no man is to separate. In the eyes of God marriage is absolute and final, ended only by death. “…Man must not separate, then, what God has joined together” (Mk 10:8). The basis of marriage according to ...

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given during Mass.

The main understanding of marriage by the Church during the second to the fifth century was based on God’s will of being “fruitful and multiply”. An important member of the Church at that time greatly contributing to the development of marriage is Saint Augustine. Born on November 13, 354 Augustine, the Bishop of North Africa, is considered as the great Father of the Church. The Roman orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero inspired Augustine to become an earnest seeker after religious truth. He experimented with several philosophical systems such as Manichaeism and Neoplatonism before entering the Church, Augustine then became the Bishop of Hippo in 395. ...

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