A fun and faith-filled retreat for married couples of all ages is being offered in Pocatello at Holy Spirit Catholic Community on Saturday, October 8th, 2022 from 10am to 4pm. Our marriage retreat leaders will be international guest-speakers and marriage ministry leaders, Ryan and Mary Rose Verret, founders of "Witness to Love Marriage Renewal Ministry". The cost for this marriage enrichment retreat is $50, but scholarships are available through the Diocese of Boise. See the bulletin for registration details or call the pastoral office. If it's been a while since you focused on your marriage, take advantage of this helpful, faith-filled opportunity.
Debbie Gallegos
208-232-1196 / [email protected]
The Sacrament of Marriage is a covenantal union in the image of the covenants between God and his people. In this way, marriage is a union that bonds spouses together during their entire lifetime.
The sacrament of Matrimony signifies the union of Christ and the Church. It gives spouses the grace to love each other with the love with which Christ has loved his Church; the grace of the sacrament thus perfects the human love of the spouses, strengthens their indissoluble unity, and sanctifies them on the way to eternal life. (CCC 1661)
The love in a married relationship is exemplified in the total gift of one’s self to another. It’s this self-giving and self-sacrificing love that we see in our other model of marriage, the relationship between Christ and the Church.
Marriage is based on the consent of the contracting parties, that is, on their will to give themselves, each to the other, mutually and definitively, in order to live a covenant of faithful and fruitful love. (CCC 1662)