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A sacrament is any visible sign of God’s invisible presence. Matrimony is a sacrament of vocation and commitment to a life of mutual love and service. In the Roman Catholic Church the institution of holy matrimony was raised to the level of a sacrament due to the origin of the divine grace that made an in ....
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.... 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 marria ....
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