Why Marriage Is NOT a Contract (It’s a Covenant)

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

For the past 50 years the institution of marriage has been under attack. More and more couples are choosing not to get married with the mindset that, "we don't need a piece of paper to show that we love each other."

And yet, that is not at all what the Catholic Church teaches about this sacrament. Today, Fr. Mike delves into the difference between a contract between two persons and the covenant of marriage that every couple is called to enter into.

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0:00.0	Oh my gosh, I just, I can't even, I can't even imagine.
0:02.7	This is crazy, this phone never rings, this is nuts.
0:05.2	No one ever calls here.
0:06.5	Take me to a surprise,
0:07.3	because what is the high call of the company living?
0:08.8	Okay, what we're saying?
0:10.6	I'm a name's Father Mike Schmitz
0:11.6	and this is essentially presents.
0:12.8	So one of the things that I've mentioned a thousand times
0:15.2	probably that I get to do with,
0:17.6	if you're working on campuses,
0:18.8	I get to do a lot of marriage preps.
0:20.4	And one of the things that is fascinating
0:22.3	is when I talk to couples and kind of in this,
0:25.0	I don't know, day and age.
0:26.4	One of the things that comes up regularly
0:28.4	is people, not the couples who are coming here
0:30.2	because they're getting ready to get married.
0:32.4	But a lot of times they know people, they have friends,
0:35.2	they're people in their lives who say about themselves
0:38.1	and they're significant other.
0:39.9	Like we don't, we don't need to get married.
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