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Today is Monday, July 20th, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are getting back to the Ten Commandments.

We have already gone halfway through, and this week we will be focusing on the Six commandment, which is thou shalt not commit adultery. Now this is a difficult commandment for us to talk about because

adultery is a very specific sin that relates to marriage. Adultery is when two people are married and they are no longer faithful to each other.

They form relationships with other people outside of their marriage, and more often than not,

the marriage falls apart.

This is a very serious sin, since it results oftentimes in the end of a marriage, but also because

it is a sin against what marriage is.

So today we are going to talk about the first concept, and this concept is that marriage,

the sacrament of marriage, is something that should last forever.

Now, by this I mean when two people go to a Catholic church and they receive the sacrament of marriage, where they stand there and in front of the whole congregation, they declare that they will be

married and faithful to each other.

They aren't saying that they will be faithful to each other for a while or even for most

of their lives.

Instead, they say, till death, do us part.

So they will be faithful and married to each other until death.

Now, this is why when two people are married and they get divorced, it is a great sadness.

Of course, we know that sometimes this happens, sometimes it can't be avoided.

And still, when two people are married and they are no longer married but divorced, unless they get something called an annulment, which is the church saying that the marriage, in fact, was never a real marriage.

But unless they get that, then they will not marry another person.

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