Marriage as a Sacrament
Marriage as a Sacrament, Not Just a Ceremony For marriage enrichment, faith formation, and pastoral reflection In many Filipino Catholic weddings, everything is prepared with great care—the dress, the flowers, the reception, the guests. Families save for months, sometimes years, to celebrate the day when a man and a woman say “I do.” Yet long after the music fades and the photographs are tucked away, a deeper and more demanding reality begins. For the Catholic Church, marriage is not simply a beautiful ceremony or a cultural milestone. It is a sacrament —a living sign of God’s faithful love, sustained by grace, meant to be lived every day. “Marriage is not an institution created by human convention, but one rooted in God’s plan of creation.” — Gaudium et Spes , no. 48 This reflection invites married couples, engaged couples, and families to rediscover marriage as a sacrament —not an idealized dream, but a grace-filled vocation lived amid ordinary joys, struggles, and impe...
