Marriage and Divorce

Question 1

What is Marriage?

Answer 1

a civil contract between two people.

Question 2

What is cohabitation?

Answer 2

Living together without being married

Question 3

What is divorce?

Answer 3

A broken down marriage

Question 4

What is the purpose of marriage?

Answer 4

unite with someone they love for the rest of their lives
to be faithful and make this sacrament with God’s blessing and in God’s presence
to have children who can also be part of the Christian faith

Question 5

What does the Gospel of Mark Jesus say?

[Mark 10:6-9]

Answer 5

But at the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.
[Mark 10:6-9]

Question 6

What does Matthew 19:9 say about divorce?

Answer 6

I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.
[Matthew 19:9]