Assertion: marriage | /r/HasProperty | sacrament
Facets:
value: under the control of the church
type: OTHER
value: in this view
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: While few Christians outside of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches regard marriage as a sacrament, the Catholic Church insists that marriage between any two baptized Christians, as long as it is entered into with the intention to contract a true marriage, is a sacrament.
text: If a husband (or a wife) is having a bad day, perhaps discouraged under the pressure of an acute domestic problem, tempted to self-pity, with the awful feeling that it was a mistake ever to get married—that is one good time to remember that Matrimony is a sacrament.
text: The English Puritans in the 17th century even passed an Act of Parliament asserting "marriage to be no sacrament" and soon thereafter made marriage purely secular.
text: Nicene Fathers such as Augustine believed that marriage was a sacrament because it was a symbol used by Paul to express Christ's love of the Church.
text: Explicit classification of marriage in this way came in reaction to the contrary teaching of Catharism that marriage and procreation are evil: the first official declaration that marriage is a sacrament was made at the 1184 Council of Verona as part of a condemnation of the Cathars.
text: In reaction, the Council of Trent on 3 March 1547 carefully named and defined the Catholic Church's sacraments, reaffirming the teaching that marriage is a sacrament − from 1184, 1208, 1274 and 1439.
text: The adjective holy simply refers to the fact that a marriage between two baptized Christians is a sacrament -- as the Code of Canon Law puts it, "a valid matrimonial contract cannot exist between the baptized without it being by that fact a sacrament.
text: In this view, marriage is a sacrament under the control of the Church and, like all sacraments, provides saving power to those who participate in it.
text: For example, the Roman Catholic Church believes that marriage is a sacrament and a valid marriage between two baptized persons cannot be broken by any other means than death.
text: While the state recognises and performs marriage (civil marriage), a marriage in the Catholic Church is also a sacrament.
text: If both non-Catholics are baptized, however, their marriage is a sacrament.
text: Marriage is a sacrament, a channel of grace, a way to know and experience the love of God.
text: Since Matrimony is a sacrament, we know that it gives grace.