I. Marriage in God’s Plan

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

1603
“The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married
state has been established by the Creator and endowed by him with its own
proper laws…. God himself is the author of marriage.”⁸⁷ The
vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they
came from the hand of the Creator. Marriage is not a purely human institution
despite the many variations it may have undergone through the centuries in
different cultures, social structures, and spiritual attitudes. These
differences should not cause us to forget its common and permanent
characteristics. Although the dignity of this institution is not transparent
everywhere with the same clarity,⁸⁸ some sense of the greatness of the
matrimonial union exists in all cultures. “The well-being of the
individual person and of both human and Christian society is closely bound up
with the healthy state of conjugal and family life.”⁸⁹

PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY

SECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
- CHAPTER THREE THE SACRAMENTS AT THE SERVICE OF COMMUNION
  - Article 7 THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
    - I. Marriage in God’s Plan

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team