Each year couples who attend our marriage preparation classes come with the hope to start a new life with the blessing of God
They bring with them many expectations, a long list of all the things they should have for their celebration, but have they ever thought of the unexpected?
The exhortation for the Rite of Marriage reads:
“…This union, then, is most serious, because it will bind you together for life in a relationship so close and so intimate, that it will profoundly influence your whole future, That future, with its hopes and disappointments, its successes and its failures, its pleasures and its pains, its joys and its sorrows, is hidden from your eyes. You know that these elements are mingled in every life, and are to be expected in your own. And so not knowing what is before you, you take each other for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death… “And if true love and the unselfish spirit of perfect sacrifice guide your every action, you can expect the greatest measure of earthly happiness that may be allotted to man in this vale of tears.The rest is in the hands of God. Nor will God be wanting to your needs, he will pledge you the life-long support of his graces [in the Holy Sacrament which you are now going to receive].”
The mystery of the sacrament shows its unexpected transcendence. The natural marriage created by God and elevated to the sacrament by Christ, remains as a sublime reality that escapes our total understanding.
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