Give God a Chance ... Get Married in the Church ... Work to Become a Saint!

Have you met someone and you feel that he/she is the person who you want to spend the rest of your life with? However, for some reason, you want to skip the Church Ceremony and go straight to the honeymoon? Stop for a while and consider the benefits you and your spouse will enjoy after a wedding ceremony celebrating your love before a priest, with a nuptial mass in the Catholic Church.

Right from the beginning of creation, marriage was a sacred union. Marriage was God's instrument for the begetting, the rearing, the education and the moral training of successive generations of human beings. Moreover, Christ's new plan for mankind included the formation and nurturing of souls in the pattern of sainthood. Duly married Christian parents everywhere replenish His mystical body. In order to help them in this very noble calling, Jesus raised this sacred union to the level of a sacrament.

For all baptised Catholics seeking a holy union, after exchanging vows at the altar before a priest on your wedding day, you will be endowed with two types of graces; Firstly, Sanctifying Grace, which will make you both spiritually stronger and spiritually more beautiful.

Secondly, you will receive Sacramental Grace which is a claim upon God for whatever actual graces you will both need through the years to enable you live a happy and successful marriage. For Sacramental Grace to become fully effective, co-operation is essential from both the bride and the groom as they transition from two-ness-to-one-ness.

Sacramental Grace perfects the natural love of a married couple, elevating this love to a supernatural level far surpassing mental and physical compatibility. This grace imparts conscientiousness (careful, exact, fair, faithful, high-principles) in the begetting and rearing of children. It gives prudence in the solving of problems that occur in family life and it enables husbands and wives to bear patiently one another's faults and shortcomings. Getting married in the Church makes matrimony an instrument for growth in holiness, making this calling a pathway to sainthood.

Go on! Give God a Chance and see what He will do for you, your spouse and your children!

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