Marriage

What does the Church teach about marriage? Marriage is a sacrament (visible sign of invisible reality) in which a man and a woman vow to each other and to God to give themselves to each other until death shall separate them. Marriage has as its ends procreation (the gift of children in the natural order) and union (the gift of the unity of the couple). It is a unique relationship, and remains as the first gift of God to humanity – the complementarity of the sexes for the rearing of children.