When we start to reflect when Jesus explains the alliance that a marriage means, an alliance for life (Matthew 19:4-9). We may have been tempted to think the same as his disciples the first time they heard His words, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry” (Matthew 19:10). So why should we seek the sacrament of marriage?
Although we can establish a union through a legal contract, this does not take us far from the days when marriage was simply a consent between the groom and the father of the one who would be the wife. We as children of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven by the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, are called to ask God to bless our union, as Tobias
recognized before consummating his marriage (Tobit 8:4-8).
Once blessed by the sacrament of marriage, consecrated by the grace of our baptism, and following the call to holiness that Jesus Christ gave us (Matthew 5:48), our mutual mission as a married couple is now, through our actions, that a once the time of the final judgment has arrived, our spouse is deserving of the Kingdom of Heaven, work for our mutual sanctification, because now we are no longer two but one. One in our walk of faith, one in the formation of our children, one alone in the example we set for others. Jesus Christ himself has told us that we are to be known by our fruits (Matthew 7:16-20).
Jesus Christ elevated the ceremony of marriage to a sacrament at the wedding at Cana, performing the miracle of turning water into wine; so also Jesus Christ has turned us into new wine through the purifying water of our baptism, let us accept the call of Jesus Christ to live in holiness, and if we ever have problems in our marriage let us turn to Mary, our mother, who with her wise words always is going to advise us: “Do everything He tells you” (John 2:5).