Deepertruth: Is Jesus And Mary Invited into your home, Marriage

Almighty Father, I place the Precious Blood of Jesus before my lips before I pray, that my prayers may be purified before they ascend to Your divine altar.

Glory be to the Father, Who by His almighty power and love created me, making me in the image and likeness of God.

Glory be to the Son, Who by His Precious Blood delivered me from hell, and opened for me the gates of heaven.

Glory be to the Holy Spirit, Who has sanctified me in the sacrament of Baptism, and continues to sanctify me by the graces I receive daily from His bounty.

Glory be to the Three adorable Persons of the Holy Trinity, now and forever. Amen.

Is Jesus And Mary Invited into your home, Marriage, 

We should all have a "Cana" experience in our homes. How blessed would be our homes if Jesus and Mary were welcome there! Marriage is one of the seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church. It is really the first Covenant between Adam and Eve(Covenant of marriage). Genesis 2:23-24 states, “the man said: ‘This one at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called woman, for out of her man this one has been taken’. That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body”.

In the Old Testament, a Covenant is an exchange of persons in contrast to a contract which is an exchange of things.

Marriage fits this perfectly as it mirrors the Covenant God makes with his people.

It is interesting that God referred to Israel’s unfaithfulness to Him as adultery when they chose to follow false gods.

The Israelites were allowed to marry anyone they pleased, “provided they marry into a clan of their ancestral tribe so that no heritage of the Israelites will pass from one tribe to another, but all the Israelites will retain their own ancestral heritage”(Numbers 36:6-7).