Marriage in Heaven?

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Does the Church have any teachings regaurding marriage in Heaven? Does the sacrament continue?

I know there is a passage in Matthew if taken litteraly would seem to depict that marriage can not exist in Heaven.

I ask because this greatly disturbs me.

I have a very good and happy marriage and it breaks my heart to think it won’t continue in Heaven. My mind can’t comprihend Heaven as being a good place if I am not still my husband’s wife when I get there.

I understand that there is no need for creating children once in Heaven, but could it be possible at least from a spiritual end for marriage to still exist in Heaven, minus the marriage act and birthing of children?

I am just curious what the Church teaches. This is something that I am struggeling with right now.
 
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My mind can’t comprihend Heaven as being a good place if I am not still my husband’s wife when I get there.
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There is reason to believe that we will somehow be united with our loved ones in heaven.

But you are focusing on what you think would make heaven good based on what is good here on the earth. But perhaps you need to consider what we can’t yet comprehend would be good in heaven because it’s just not available here on earth. We have to trust that whatever relationship with have with Jesus will be what marriage was just training us for.
 
We will not be married in heaven although we will be in communion. My image of heaven is a heavenly feast with unending conversation, music, dancing etc. I believe we will be married at the Resurrection although this contradicts the Gospel. I believe the Resurrection will be a second Genesis and we will build a new world order and have children at the resurrection. We can’t make love in heaven as we will not have a body.
 
Little_Katie said:
Does the Church have any teachings regaurding marriage in Heaven? Does the sacrament continue?

I know there is a passage in Matthew if taken litteraly would seem to depict that marriage can not exist in Heaven.

I ask because this greatly disturbs me.

I have a very good and happy marriage and it breaks my heart to think it won’t continue in Heaven. My mind can’t comprihend Heaven as being a good place if I am not still my husband’s wife when I get there.

I understand that there is no need for creating children once in Heaven, but could it be possible at least from a spiritual end for marriage to still exist in Heaven, minus the marriage act and birthing of children?

I am just curious what the Church teaches. This is something that I am struggeling with right now.
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The bond of Marriage is broken by death.
 
I have often asked myself similar questions. I believe we will know each other and the love we have here on earth as husband and wife, family, brother or sister continues and is brought to it’s fullness. My dad was a convert to the church and one of the questions he asked the priest was “Will I know my mother ?” Dad’s mother died when he was about 2 years old and so he had no real memories of her. The priest reassured him that most definitely he would.

We can take a glimpse perhaps of heavenly life by recollecting the story of Lazarus and the rich man. As we know a conversation existed between the rich man and Abraham. So I think we will have real conversations just as we do here on earth. Moses and Elijah both stood next to Jesus during the transfiguration. The disciples saw them clearly as they saw Jesus so I think we will be able to see one another just as we see ourselves here on earth.

We don’t know what God has in store for us, we can only imagine what that might be. Will my mom and dad still be my mom and dad in heaven, will we still be a family, will I know my 9 brothers and sister. I think the answer to these and like questions is yes!🙂
 
It’s interesting to see how much answers fluxuate. I have even gotten responces on my other catholic forum of people who believe in soul mates lol (one soul- reunited at the resurrection?).

I am not sure what I think just yet. I know what I WANT To think, but often what we WANT to think is not what really is.
 
I would think of it as though you know who your spouse is, and recognize they are there in Heaven with you. But you’re cup will be so full, that it won’t bother you that the bonds of marriage are broken. In fact, nothing will bother you. Heaven is a place of pure joy. That’s why we’re working so hard to get there. 😉
 
To put it bluntly, humans were made to be with God. During our time on earth we have feelings and emotions which God has given us, but they are only put to use on earth.

When we die, (and if we go to heaven), our feelings and emotions will be beyond our comprehension, much more than anything we experience on this earth. This is because we will be with God, the one who created us.

We would have reached the end of the journey.

All we have ever wanted on earth will be fulfilled in heaven, our passions, and our love, will all be eternal and directed at God, in communion with the angels and saints.
 
Little_Katie said:
Does the Church have any teachings regaurding marriage in Heaven? Does the sacrament continue?

I know there is a passage in Matthew if taken litteraly would seem to depict that marriage can not exist in Heaven.

I ask because this greatly disturbs me.

I have a very good and happy marriage and it breaks my heart to think it won’t continue in Heaven. My mind can’t comprihend Heaven as being a good place if I am not still my husband’s wife when I get there.

I understand that there is no need for creating children once in Heaven, but could it be possible at least from a spiritual end for marriage to still exist in Heaven, minus the marriage act and birthing of children?

I am just curious what the Church teaches. This is something that I am struggeling with right now.
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Father Cantalamesa the Papal Household Preacher wrote that marriage continues in heaven, but in a different way. Husbands and wives join together with God to create a new being with an immortal soul. In heaven this relationship exists eternally. A father and mother of a child remain so forever. Your mother will be your mother forever, as Jesus mother is His mother forever. Your father will always be your father. So who are these to people to one another forever?
 
If the marriage bond is not dissolved at death, how can a widow or widower remarry lawfully in the Church? Isn’t that the whole point of Jesus’ answer?
 
In the Melkite tradition there is a belief that marriage continues after death. We discussed this at length a few years ago in the Easter Christianity forum, which is temporarily blocked. Once the moderators finish reviewing the threads there, hopefully that thread will become available again in the archives.
 
In Heaven, your relationship with everyone, including your earthly spouse if that person is there, will be better and deeper and closer and more full of joy than the best possible marriage is now.
 
No doubt you heard the story of the couple killed in an accident the day before their wedding? They arrive at the Pearly Gates glum, sad!. St Peter asks what’s the matter - they’re in heaven. They tell him they are in love and were supposed to be married. They ask, “Can you get married in heaven?” St. Peter says it’s a highly unusual request, but will get back to them.

A month later, St Peter sees the couple and asks if they still want to marry because he has it worked out. They say, “Oh, yes!”

Well, a year later the couple come to St. Peter and tell him it’s not working out. They ask if you can get divorced in heaven. St. Peter says, "I don’t know! But even if it were technically possible, it took me a month to get a priest up here so someone could marry you. How long do you think it will take to get two lawyers and a judge to divorce you!!?

Ta da, dum!!!😃
 
Marriage is an Earthly Institution. We will not need the other sacraments in heaven either.
 
Remember the episode in the 12th chapter of Mark’s Gospel, where the Pharisees tried to trap Jesus by asking him the hypothetical question about the wife who went down the line of seven brothers who died one after the other? When they asked Him whose wife she would be in the resurrection, He said when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

The marriage bond ends at death, so widows are free to remarry. But that doesn’t mean that love ceases at death. Love increases in heaven, as the the solicitude of the saints proves.
 
Victorious said:
The marriage bond ends at death, so widows are free to remarry. But that doesn’t mean that love ceases at death. Love increases in heaven, as the the solicitude of the saints proves.
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Not exactly. In Holy Orders the priest receives a mark on his soul and it remains forever. He may not offer Mass as a priest, but he will be a priest in heaven or hell. Love requires an object of love. There is the lover, the beloved and the love, a trinity. You love a person in some relationship to you, a neighbor, your mother, father, some family member, friend or even a stranger. You love a person you know in some manner. In heaven the person you spent your adult life with, had four children and grandchildren still is that person the mother or father of your children. There is no more begetting of children so that aspect of marriage ends.
 
The words are “till death do us part”.

The primary purpose of marriage is the creation and education of children as such it has no purpose in heaven.

Love is much greater in heaven, and God is there the very source of love, all will be purified sinless beings, even greater than your husband is now, and Christ Himself will be there.

Make sure both you and your husband get to heaven and you can spend eternity together but it won’t be like your marriage, it will be much better.

You need to love God more than you love your husband, be careful you do not make an idol out of him.
 
Little_Katie said:
It’s interesting to see how much answers fluxuate. I have even gotten responces on my other catholic forum of people who believe in soul mates lol (one soul- reunited at the resurrection?).

I am not sure what I think just yet. I know what I WANT To think, but often what we WANT to think is not what really is.
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That is heresy as far as I am aware, each of us has one eternal soul distinct from all others.

The idea of soul mates is not Catholic.
 
Leonius said:
That is heresy as far as I am aware, each of us has one eternal soul distinct from all others.

The idea of soul mates is not Catholic.
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Well, I think it was Jesus who said the two shall become one flesh. He did not say one soul, but the two become one. We do believe in the ressurrection of the body, the flesh. We always need to be very careful or cautious about what we call heresy.
 
grandfather said:
Well, I think it was Jesus who said the two shall become one flesh. He did not say one soul, but the two become one. We do believe in the ressurrection of the body, the flesh. We always need to be very careful or cautious about what we call heresy.
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Yes but not that in marriage both souls create one soul. What you say concerning marriage does not support this false idea that is based on nothing but sentimentalism.
 
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