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Hey there, sprouts. Today is Thursday, February 6th, 2020. This week on the Catholic Spouse podcast, we are talking about marriage. We've already talked about how marriage is a sacrament

of communion and mission. We talked about the requirements for two people to get

married. What happens at a wedding ceremony. And yesterday we talked about all of the invisible,

amazing things that go along with the sacrament of marriage, that there needs to be three people

in a marriage, husband, wife, and God. And that marriage is a vocational call.

Now, today we're going to talk about two other important points on marriage. We're going to talk

about how the sacrament of marriage is indissolvable. It means it cannot be dissolved or erased.

And the second point is we are going to talk about the church in miniature.

So first of all, indissolvable.

Now, the faith, the catechism of the Catholic Church, is very clear that marriage is a forever kind of thing.

Why is this? Because when husband and wife are married, God himself comes down. He takes two

separate people and he makes them into one. They are united in a permanent

and forever kind of way. Marriage lasts until death, until one of the spouses die. Now, there are

some extenuating circumstances, and we will talk about those,

but on the whole, marriage lasts the entire lifetime. Does that mean it will be easy and fun

every single day? No. Does that mean that you will like each other all of the time? No, but it does mean that God has

bonded you together and that through the graces of the incredible sacrament of marriage,

you will find a way to make it through. So there's three reasons why marriages are indissolvable when they are sacraments of the church.

The first one is that is because of the nature of love.

Love is the love of God.

That is what has united us.

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