Marriage Question 1 Many people think that a wedding in a church is important so that the people getting married are under the eyes of God and he will give then the love and guidance against thing's like marital breakdown and to give the couple the love and support for each other . 'The love of man and woman is made holy in the sacrament of marriage, and becomes the mirror of your everlasting love', this quote literally spell's out what the sacrament of marriage is for . Marriage is the final sacrament of a catholic person's life, but marriage can only be conceived in a church if one or both of the people receiving the sacrament of marriage has had in this order a baptism, first communion and is a confirmed catholic, then and only then can a marriage take place in the house of God, marriage is a solemn contract between a man and a woman who share love together. There are many references to marriage and divorce in the bible most of them coincide in the new testament in such chapters such as Matthew, Mark, John, Corinthians and Ephesians . Most of the passages in new testament really describe a man and a woman being faithful to each other like Jesus was faithful to the church, for example in Ephseians 5 21-33, it was written ' wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the lord . For your husband has authority over his wife just as Christ has authority over the church; and Christ is himself the saviour of the church, his body' , this states that a man is the base
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of a marriage and his wife must be faithful to him as Christ was faithful to the church as it was his body. In the sacrament of marriage there are three questions asked to prove the couple's true faith each other , question one asks the couple do you freely and without reserve, to give yourself to each other in marriage , simply this asks the couple do you accept each other in your own love without any objection. Question two asks the couple if they are ready to honour each other for the rest of their lives. The third ...

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