HOLY MATRIMONY

“That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.” (Gen. 2:24)

"The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament." (CCC 1601)