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[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in our Gospel today, Jesus defines the fundamental sacredness of
marriage. I’m convinced that the deep sacramental and religious meaning of
marriage—even within the Church—has been, in recent years, dramatically
compromised. We say that marriage is a vocation, but do we mean it? We can
look at human sexual relationships at a number of different levels. Two
people can come together purely for physical pleasure, for economic
reasons, or for psychological companionship. And we might witness two
people coming together out of authentic love. But none of these levels is
what the Bible means by marriage. When I was doing parish work I would
invariably ask young couples, "Why do you want to get married in church?"
Most would say something like, "Because we love each other." But I would
reply, "Well, that’s no reason to get married in church." They usually
looked stunned, but I meant it. You come to church to be married before God
and his people when you are convinced that your marriage is not, finally,
about you; that it is about God and about serving God’s purposes; that it
is, as much as the priesthood of a priest, a vocation, a sacred calling.*
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