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1) Marriage is a lifelong covenant and sacrament of love between a man and woman that mirrors God's love. Through marriage, partners mutually commit to loving and caring for each other until death. 2) Marriage helps couples be faithful, good parents, and serve others. It shows that a loving marriage is both desirable and possible. 3) When between baptized persons, marriage expresses the unbreakable bond between Christ and his people. Through the sacrament, God's love becomes present in the spouses' total union and flows to their family and community.

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1) Marriage is a lifelong covenant and sacrament of love between a man and woman that mirrors God's love. Through marriage, partners mutually commit to loving and caring for each other until death. 2) Marriage helps couples be faithful, good parents, and serve others. It shows that a loving marriage is both desirable and possible. 3) When between baptized persons, marriage expresses the unbreakable bond between Christ and his people. Through the sacrament, God's love becomes present in the spouses' total union and flows to their family and community.

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Kim Adrian C.

Ecobillo September 30, 2019


Grade 11- Venerable Francisca

“Marriage is a Covenant and Sacrament of Love”

These days, it seems as though people have an evolving idea of what it means to be
committed whether it be in a romantic relationship, a friendship, or even a job. It’s important that
we continue to see commitments as being not so much about a contract or something we feel
obligated to, but as a covenant especially when it comes to marriage. Marriage is a matrimonial
covenant, by which a man and a woman become partner in their whole life. Marriage is a
covenant of love in which a person will give his/herself to someone he/she loved. The love of
man and woman mirrors the love of God and their children are part of God’s creation. The sacred
covenant that is marriage is not simply an agreement to exchange certain rights and duties.  In
marriage, the partners mutually surrender themselves to each other. The marriage partnership is
one of total self-giving. In matrimonial ceremony, it is agreement that someone will love and
take good care his/her partner until their death. The Sacrament of Marriage is a lasting
commitment of a man and a woman to a lifelong partnership, established for the good of each
other and the procreation of their children. God created man out of love, and calls on him to love,
it is proper that the union of man and woman should be a Sacrament. In marriage, the grace of
this sacrament brings to the spouses the particular help they need to be faithful and to be good
parents. It also helps a couple to serve others beyond their immediate family and to show the
community that a loving and lasting marriage is both desirable and possible.
Pearl Jane Tabsing September 30, 2019

Grade 11- Venerable Francisca

“Marriage as the Sign of Love of Christ and the Church”

When the Catholic Church teaches that marriage between two baptized persons is a
sacrament, it is saying that the couple’s 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. All seven sacraments were instituted by Christ and were entrusted to
the Church to be celebrated in faith within and for the community of believers. The rituals and
prayers by which a sacrament is celebrated serve to express visibly what God is doing invisibly.
This vision of the Sacrament as a sign of God’s love helps us understand how the protection and
development of the family for the good of our society is a matter of religious conviction because
marriage is not merely an institution for public recognition of relationships for adult fulfillment.
In a sacramental marriage, God’s love becomes present to the spouses in their total union and
also flows through them to their family and community. By their permanent, faithful and
exclusive giving to each other, symbolized in sexual intercourse, the couple reveals something
of God’s unconditional love. The sacrament of Christian marriage involves their entire life as
they journey together through the ups and downs of marriage and become more able to give to
and receive from each other. Their life becomes sacramental to the extent that the couple
cooperates with God’s action in their life and sees themselves as living in Christ and Christ
living and acting in their relationship, attitudes and actions.

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