The same role it plays elsewhere in life. By receiving any of the sacraments an individual receives grace. Grace is an outpouring of God’s love and a sign of God’s life in the person. A sacramental marriage receives that same kind of grace. You know there are going to be times when things get difficult. Wouldn’t you rather face them along with God?
Yes, that is the purpose of Sacraments, to give grace and keep us from sin. From the Catechism:
Temporally, there may not be a difference.i’d like to know how a sacramental marriage is better off than a happily married non-catholic couple. thanks.
You do not know what you are talking about.
That’s not correct.
newadvent.org/cathen/09707a.htm
Everything in your post is against the teachings of the Church.
Validity and Sacramentality are not things that one “feels” - they either are, or are not.
I am presuming you were married according to the laws of the Church.
She did not state that.
Take this for instance; My Mother was of a Pennsylvania Italian family of the Roman Church that worked for the Italian Government in Rome and in Vatican City Libraries. They were a prominent family in the Community of the Latin Church, and she herself was a leader in the local Pro-Life Movement and member and writer for Legio Mariae. Regardless, she Wed at age 18, in the Universal Church to a man also of the Church Of Rome. However, her motivation for Marriage was not the natural one. She did not Marry for love and commitment and the indisolvable bond between her husband and God, but simply to escape from the home of her Mother who is my Grandmother. She didn’t love him at all. Was their Marriage Sacramental? No! Yes it was Roman Catholic, but was it assumed for the proper reasons? No. Following this, she birthed my half-brother our of a genuinely adulterous union, then left that man for my Father who was an atheist from an Anglican-Protestant family. They went to my Father’s homeland of England to Wed, and did so in an Anglican congregation, a Latin Catholic woman from a former sinful, immoral, unethical, adulterous, procreative union now joining in an additional catastrophical union with an atheist from a background of apostate “PROTEST”-antism. Did she do all of this out of deliberate rebellion contra her religion and God? No of course not! She didn’t see what she was doing as many if not most don’t. So from this sin-entrenched union I was birthed, I, the “fruit-of-sin” as we all are since the fall of humanity, but ancestral vice such as this worsens things. Anyway, what I am getting at is, yes, the Western Church is the True Church and it has set-out rules and regulations for one of It’s Seven Sacraments. Because our Church is the True Church does not mean that say our Pastors and Priests are immune to sin and wayward teaching, for it is not them, but the official Infallible Church that is immune to this. Our Pastors and Priests give us all kinds of erroneous dialogue to which we much caution ourselves. We must look to them for spiritual and moral guidance, but we know when they are committing apostacy of whatever they say goes against something the Church declares or has declared in It’s 2,000 year history. They too condone too much! Once there was “Annulment,” now in Conciliar terms there is “Divorce,” just as if Sacramental Marriage were any other raw legal thing. Ultimately, Marriage extra the Universal Church is not sincere.
Your unfortunate mother’s experiences aside, not everyone is born Catholic, or knows anything about the Catholic Church. Are you going to condemn the marriages of 5.5 billion people on this earth just because they didn’t happen to be born Catholic, and bastardize every last one of their children?
My marriage is not considered sacramental, but God is very active in our relationship. He is iin our decisions and our prayers. I know many nonCatholic marriages where God is the center of their relationship. I know nonChristian marriages that are very strong and committed relationships, bu t in their religion, marriage is a life long commitment and that concept is honored.
I do not indend to profess, as you may be under the impression that I do, that all of these millions of persons born without the knowledge of the Faith or even hearing of it are damned bastards at the cost of their unfortunate birth origins. No. At the same time, I do strictly profess that the Latin Catholic Church is the One, True, Faith. These such persons that you and I speak of are not to be blamed to condemned as such, but God will deal with them totally in perfection by His Divine Will and Providence wither in life or death or both in accordance with your existence situation, for He loves them as His offspring, the children of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and siblings of Jesus Christ, all too fashioned in His Likeness and Image, and created with an immortal soul. He comprehends and understands their situation and will work what He knows is righteous and just. All the same, it is the duty of Western Catholics like myself to bring to them the Gospel and Evangelization, this a task that I myself and many members under the Roman Church quite blatantly fail to live-up to properly.Your unfortunate mother’s experiences aside, not everyone is born Catholic, or knows anything about the Catholic Church. Are you going to condemn the marriages of 5.5 billion people on this earth just because they didn’t happen to be born Catholic, and bastardize every last one of their children?
Again, the teaching of the Church (you know - that thing that Jesus gave us, two thousand years ago, that cannot change according to human opinions?) is that all first marriages are valid until proven otherwise by a Catholic Marriage Tribunal - not only those between Catholics, or that take place in the Catholic Church (and in any case it would be absurd for two Buddhists or two Presbyterians to wed in the Catholic Church - they have no connection to it, and are not bound by its authority).
And when they convert, after we have properly evangelized them, the Church will not ask them to undergo Catholic wedding ceremonies, as though they had never been married before.