What do the marriage vows demand from a Catholic couple, living out their marriage?
… relationship with us. Through the sacraments we deepen our relationship with God. Now I have opened up the coursework I will write out the marriage vows and look in detail at what they involve. A vow is a promise and a promise is there to be kept. If we break a promise then we usually betray someone who puts his or her trust in us, In this case it would be God who we would betray if we broke up our marriage. The marriage vows are as follows: “I (name) do take thee (name) to be my lawful husband/wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us apart.” At the actual exchange of vows is the point where the sacrament takes place. The sacrament of marriage …
