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Hey there, sprouts. Today is Tuesday, July 21st, 2020. This week on the Catholic Sprauds we are talking about the Sixth Commandment, Thou shalt not commit adultery. We've already

talked about how this is a very specific sin, which occurs when two people who are

married are no longer faithful to each other, but instead they form relationships, special,

private relationships with people outside of their marriage.

Oftentimes, this leads to the end of a marriage. And marriage is something that lasts forever because marriage reveals to the world the loving

nature of God, which is without end. Now, today we're going to talk about why marriage is such a big deal to the whole world

and why people who aren't married, perhaps single people, really do need to fight for the

protection of marriage. In our world today, marriage is very much attacked. People might think that you can have a family if two people just

live together, but perhaps they aren't married. They might also think that marriage should apply to

all sorts of different people, not just a man and a wife. But as Catholics, we believe it is super duper important.

The marriage be protected, that it always be between a man and a woman, that it be recognized

as a sacrament, and that it be protected as the absolute building block of everything. Now remember with me for a second

sprouts way back in the beginning. When God created the world, he created the land, the water,

the light, and then he started to create living creatures, the animals on the land, the animals in the air,

and the animals in the sea. And at the end, God desired to create a creature in his image,

so he created a human being. But he realized that this human being, Adam, needed a companion.

So he created Eve.

And Adam and Eve were married and they became the first parents.

Their children are what grew and their grandchildren and on and on is what grew to populate the world.

Now, think about this. Nothing that God does is an accident. We might think that it's just

sort of interesting that there was a man and a woman in the very beginning and that that was

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