Life never ceases to amuse me. I'm engaged to a Catholic, and I came from a strong Protestant background. Alan, the fiancé, refers to me as a "free agent," which is true. I've been dissatisfied with the church as of late, and have been attending Mass with him. I get more out of the homilies the priests give than I've gotten out of the Protestant preachers in the past goodness knows how long.
We'll see where that takes me. Hah, wrote "tames" at first. Interesting.
I like that this response to "What is the church's position on dissolving a marriage?" does not include dissolving a marriage. I'm not being sarcastic, I think it's very relevant that they further posit that marriage is something huge, something you don't go into willy-nilly, something larger than yourself: a sacrament.
ReplyDelete"We know from scripture that this Sacrament
is where two people act as one. That is one of the great signs of the Sacrament of Marriage. Each of the sacraments has its signs and symbols - water for Baptism - bread and wine for ucharist - but in marriage the couple themselves are the sign of that union between God and his Church. Just as Jesus Christ takes the Church as his bride forever in perpetuity, so couples in marriage are called to be that sign. When that works well it is a beautiful sign for all. From the earliest days of the Church there have been reasons why the Church has allowed remarriages. As time went on the Church defined the proper form of marriage. For example, it had to be before a priest, there had to be two witnesses,
the couple had to give evidence that they were being married legitimately -such as age."