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Up to the
time of Christ, marriage, although a sacred union, was still
only a civil contract between a man and a woman.
Jesus,
however, took this contract, this exchange of marital consent
between man and woman, and made the contract a conveyor of
grace. He made marriage a sacrament, the sacrament of Matrimony
among Christians.
Matrimony is defined as "the sacrament by which a baptized man
and a baptized woman bind themselves for life in a lawful
marriage and receive the grace to discharge their duties."
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