Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.