Marriage: where in Bible did Jesus initiate?

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Where in the Bible did Jesus institute the sacrament of marriage?

Why would someone have to get married in a church? Is that in the Bible somewhere?

I have a daughter who is considering getting married, but is likely to do it without a church, basically with a justice of the peace.
I am looking for evidence in the Bible that she should get married in a manner that God would approve of. She is a fallen away Catholic.

thanks,
Jon
 
there is SOOOO much going on at Cana!!

do whatever he tells you…
 
FCEGM said:
Jon, the Catechism of the Catholic Church offers these beautiful teachings on the Sacrament of Matrimony:

vatican.va/archive/catechism/p2s2c3a7.htm
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Thanks. The references in the Bible seem to related to the insolubility of marriage, ie, against divorce. It doesn’t indicate how they got married in the first place. That’s all fine and well. My situation is whether the civil marriage between two baptized persons (although not practicing their religion) is valid or not. If after they mature, hopefully they will come back to the church. What happens then? Do they simply get their marriage “blessed” by the priest?
 
upbeatjonm said:
Where in the Bible did Jesus institute the sacrament of marriage?

Why would someone have to get married in a church? Is that in the Bible somewhere?

I have a daughter who is considering getting married, but is likely to do it without a church, basically with a justice of the peace.
I am looking for evidence in the Bible that she should get married in a manner that God would approve of. She is a fallen away Catholic.

thanks,
Jon
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Hi Upbeat Jon,

***“Marriage is the primordial Sacrament.” ***

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God. And the Word was God.

So, Christ instituted marriage in the beginning.

Don’t send your daughter off to marriage without both of you reading “Good News about Sex and Marriage” by Christopher West. It’s a fantastic, easy to read book about the whys about Catholic marriage, in a question/answer format.

Marriage is the Central Point of the Sacrament of Creation
ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/jp2tb96.htm

Marriage is an integral part of New (Testament) Sacramental Economy.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/jp2tb98.htm

To understand the Sacrament of Marriage is to understand all of Christianity and to really understand the Scriptures.

The Sacrament of Marriage are the “Nuptial Bookends of the Bible.”

Genesis begins with creation of man and woman, made in God’s image. Revelations ends with the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Ephesians is about the mystical marriage of Christ the Bridegroom and his Bride, the Church. The Song of Songs in the Old Testament is love poetry about marriage.
 
upbeat… I wasn’t trying to be smarmy by the italicized inclusion of one of my favorite lines from Scripture…nor was i trying to be cryptic in not elaborating…Forgive me if it read that way!

Rather, I feel wholly inadequate to elaborate! But i will try:

Jesus did not institute marriage (obviously), rather, His presence at Cana AND the fact that His Ministry began at the wedding there elevated marriage to the level of a Sacrament.

Indeed, we may look at the entirety of Holy Scripture and see that it “begins” in Genesis with a marriage (Adam and Eve) and ends with a marriage (Revelation…Christ the bridegroom marries His Church). The marriage described in Revelation is the ulitimate expression of God’s love for his people (church)…and that ALL marriages should “point” us to that ultimate union…

It is no accident, I think that the NEW Adam (Jesus) and the NEW Eve (Mary) are together at Cana to RESTORE what has been lost as a consequence of The Fall (metaphorically speaking, the wine was lost…Jesus, restores the wine at Cana foreshadowing the Eucharist). Taking the new Adam/Eve symbolism further, we note that when Mary tells Jesus that they have run out of wine, He calls her what???

“woman”… (Eve)

which is echoed from the cross when He addresses Mary again “woman, behold your son…”

so we see at Cana that the what was lost in the Garden is restored by Jesus through Mary, or perhaps more accurately, that Jesus’ mission to Complete that restoration BEGINS at Cana and ends on the cross (“it is finished”)…

I lack the ability to articulate it all well, so I would refer you to more learned men and women who can do so much better than I can… notably, to Christopher West and John Paul the Great

hope that is a start, anyway…
 
I see others are referring to the Theology of the Body!!!

amen!

it IS wonderful news for ALL!!
 
graceandglory…

my wife and i just attended Christopher West’s “Created and Redeemed” seminar

it is impossible to fully express what it has done to and for us…here’s the closest I can come to it:

I have finally found what I have been searching for my whole life…
 
Kolbelover said:
graceandglory…
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my wife and i just attended Christopher West’s “Created and Redeemed” seminar

it is impossible to fully express what it has done to and for us…here’s the closest I can come to it:

I have finally found what I have been searching for my whole life…**.
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Keep preaching it, dear brother in Christ!!! 👍
(It’s funny, how it seems to be harder to “sell it” to Catholics who are married already. So many “think they know.” 😉
 
Kolbelover said:
graceandglory…

my wife and i just attended Christopher West’s “Created and Redeemed” seminar

it is impossible to fully express what it has done to and for us…here’s the closest I can come to it:

I have finally found what I have been searching for my whole life…
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I’ve heard C. West speak 5 times in St. Louis. Thought I basically “got it”…which I did in some ways.

I went to the week long classes for TOB 1 AND 2 that C. West taught.

I’m a different person now. Amazing.
 
A quick, though probably inadequate, explanation as why one should be married in a church by a minister.

First, the bible sets Marriage as a covenant and not a legal contract. A covenant being the binding of two individuals together as one family, an oath to one another that is unbreakable.

A justice of the peace only illicits a marriage as a contract, since he cannot recognize and record an oath to God (in the covenant) form. He can only legalize a contract and enforce a contract between two individuals.

As such, a marriage between two people in front of a justice of a peace is legitimizing the contractual regards more than a covenental regard. A covenent requires examination, personal refleciton and honesty by both sides, and God’s presence and invitation to the ceremony.

This is completely inadequate to fully explain the marriage as a covenant, but to do so would require some great books. This may give you a “quick” realization of why a justice of the peace out of a church does not fullfill the church’s requirements for a sacramental marriage or covenant.

I hope I didn’t confuse you.

-Ruberic
 
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Where in the Bible did Jesus institute the sacrament of marriage?
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Jesus did not initiate marriage during his public life on earth, marriage was instituted by God when he created man and woman. Marriage was sacramentalized, made an occasion of Christ’s presence and conferrel of grace, by Jesus at the wedding feast of Cana when he lent his presence and signified his grace by the abundance of his miracle there. If you are asking where Jesus defended the permanence of marriage, see the Sermon on the mount, specifically Matt 5:27-32
 
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