Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word. ... Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.
- Eph 5:25-26, 28
The Sacrament of Matrimony comes about through a promise made by a man and a woman before God and the Church, which is accepted and confirmed by god and consummated by the bodily union of the couple. Because God himself forms the bond of sacramental marriage, it is binding until the death of one of the partners.
El Sacramento del Matrimonio se lleva a cabo mediante una promesa hecha ante Dios y ante la Iglesia, que es aceptada y sellada por Dios y se consuma por la unión corporal de los esposos. Dado que es Dios mismo quien forma el vínculo del matrimonio sacramental, este vínculo une hasta la muerte de uno de los contrayentes.
To love a person means to see him as God intended him.
- Francois Mauriac