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Marriage is an icon (image) of the relationship between Jesus and the Church. This is somewhat akin to the Old Testament prophets' use of marriage as an analogy to describe the relationship between God and Israel. Marriage is the simplest, most basic unity of the church: a congregation where "two or three are gathered together in Jesus' name."
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]
The Church teaches that marriage was created by God and was meant to be indissoluble: like the creation of a child that cannot be "un-created", neither can the "one flesh" of the marriage bond. [126] The Catechism states, "Divorce is a grave offense against the natural law.
A strong foundation in a relationship or marriage must be built with God at the center parishioners were told at the Sunday morning worship service at Open Door Ministries. 'Marriage is a covenant ...
Marriage is thought to consist of a covenant between the man, the woman, and God. The church teaches that in addition to civil marriage, which ends at death, a man and woman can enter into a celestial marriage , performed in a temple by priesthood authority, whereby the marriage and parent–child relationships resulting from the marriage will ...
Covenant marriages are only legally recognized as an option in Arizona, Arkansas and Louisiana, where Johnson and his wife entered their own covenant marriage. Such unions, modeled after the ...
Taylor's infidelity in her marriage was at the heart of the soft-swinging scandal that rocked MomTok. Her decision to get divorced wasn't looked highly upon by many within the Mormon community ...
Covenant marriage is a legally distinct kind of marriage in three states of the United States (Arizona, Arkansas, and Louisiana), in which the marrying spouses agree to obtain pre-marital counseling and accept more limited grounds for later seeking divorce (the least strict of which being that the couple lives apart from each other for two years).