The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-31
breaches ON MATRIMONY


Speaking on the gospel of the day.
relating the incidents of the wedding
of Cana, John 2;1-12, Rev. Father
Bechar. who occupied the pulpit at ST.
Edwards Catholic church Sunday said
in substance and in part
when we view the world and So
ciety. see different institutions,
some public and some private in ex
istence. The government, the state,
is one form of public institution, /
founded by God to control the tenn /
poral affairs of men in relation to one |
another. Another public institution, |
also instituted by God, is the Church
whose duty it is to look after the
higher or spiritual interests of hu-
manity. Some institutions have to do
with both the Church and the State
Among these is the marriage rela-
ton. Marriage is the foundation of
both the Church and State and was in
stituted in the Garden of Eden. The
bible says that God said at is not we'll
for man to be alone: let make him
a help like unto himself" And God
blessed them and babe them increase
and multiply and populate the earth
God blessed marriage and made it
a sacrament He increases sanctify-
ing grace in the soul at marriage and
! gives extra sacramental graces at the
same time, enable those who receive
them to live worthily and fulfill the
duties OF the state.
Marriage is the most sacred of con-
tracts SO universally is this recOg-
nized that all nations and tribes cele-
\ brate some sort of religious rites on
the occasion of marriage. Marriage
would always bring blessings if it
were always understood as God wish
es it to be.
Today unfortunately, we find many
who fail to recognize the spiritual side
! of matrimony. They say that the
state alone controls it and should con-
{ troll it. That it is simply a civil con
| tract to be broken whenever the state
consents The increase of divorce S
t a sign of spiritual degeneracy- II
b. shows that the people have left Gods
= way. In this they are acting against
5 their own principles of conserving
e wealth. From the narrow, worldly
5 point of view, modern divorce is ter
= ribly expensive. 1t would be a reve-
latiOn to us, could we ascertain the
{ cost of court fees, of lawyers fees, OF
} the extra cost of rearing and educat-
, ing children in separated families,
= not to mention the terrible spiritual
- cost, and the pain and disconsOlatiOn
= that follows the division of married
2 people
/ Married people can get along if they
r make due allowance for each other
, The success of matrimony, like the
4 success. the real success, OF every
2 thing else. depends on the observan &C
- of Gods law, laid down in the deca-
- logue God wrote His laws on two
e tables of stone. On one He wrote the
Y duty of man to His Creator. On the
. other he wrote the duty of man &c
his neighbOr and to himself God tells
Y us to avoid idolatry, not to take his
. Name in vain and emphasizes the
e duty of the observance of the Sab
f bath Day. Then he tells children Il
f honor their father and their mother
= which means that they shall respec
= them as long as they live. He com
y mands the people to respect life, tS
n observe conjugal fidelity, and to re
l. spect the property and the good name
o of our neighbor If married folks OBJ
s serve the law of God as laid down OF
e Mount Sinai and elucidated in tn
a Sermon on the Mount they will hav
i no difficulty in living happily whei
& married
It In the Catholic church there ar
Il many beautiful devotiOns, like thOs
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, witt
# brief prayers for a holy life, the prac