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Sacrament of Marriage


For those visiting this page because of a recent engagement, congratulations! Together, you have decided to begin a great journey of love. The Catholic community of Canton rejoices with you, your families, and your friends on your decision to be married. The contents of this section have been designed to help you prepare for the celebration of your wedding. Please feel free to get in touch with us with any questions you may have.

Marriage Preapration 
Many people will be assisting you as you prepare for the Sacrament of Marriage; they all want to help you realize a marital relationship built on self-giving love, one that helps each spouse become the best version of themselves, all while growing deeper in relationship with Christ.
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Step 1: Contact the Parish Office to schedule a brief meeting with a priest or deacon.

Step 2: You will then be asked to take part in a marriage preparation program, sometimes called Pre-Cana. 

Step 3: You will also meet with the parish Wedding Coordinator and Director of Music.  These meetings are designed to help you prepare the actual wedding ceremony. The meeting will provide assistance on picking out readings, examples of music, and other helpful information as you plan your celebration. 

Step 4: Each couple married in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts must obtain a license. You should contact the clerk in any city or town hall in the state about six weeks before your wedding regarding the proper procedure. This license must be brought to the wedding rehearsal.
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The sacrament of marriage is a visible sign of God’s love for the Church. When a man and a woman are married in the Church, they receive the grace needed for a lifelong bond of unity.

Marriage is a Covenant
The Sacrament of Marriage is a covenantal union in the image of the covenants between God and his people with Abraham and later with Moses at Mt. Sinai. This divine covenant can never be broken. 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)

The Church takes the lifelong nature of the Sacrament of Marriage seriously. The Church teaches that a break in this covenant teaches goes against the natural law of God:

The remarriage of persons divorced from a living, lawful spouse contravenes the plan and law of God as taught by Christ. They are not separated from the Church, but they cannot receive Eucharistic communion. They will lead Christian lives especially by educating their children in the faith. (CCC 1665)

Marriage Reflects the Holy Trinity
We believe that God exists in eternal communion. Together, Father, Son and Holy Spirit are united in one being with no beginning and no end. Human beings, likewise, were created by God in God’s image for the purpose of communion with another human being.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “The Christian family is a communion of persons, a sign and image of the communion of the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit” (CCC 2205). The Sacrament of Marriage is “unitive, indissoluble and calls us to be completely open to fertility.” Christian marriage at its finest is a reflection of God’s self-giving love expressed between the love of two people.
God created man and woman out love and commanded them to imitate his love in their relations with each other. Man and woman were created for each other...Woman and man are equal in human dignity, and in marriage both are united in an unbreakable bond. (United States Catechism for Adults, Ch. 21, p. 279)

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St. Oscar Romero Parish:
St. Oscar Romero Parish Church | 700 Washington St., Canton, MA  02021
Administrative Office | 781-828-0090 | Faith Formation Office 781-828-5130

St. John the Evangelist School | 696 Washington St., Canton, MA 02021 | 781-828-2130
Saint Mary Cemetery | Randolph St., Canton, MA  02021 | Barbara McKenney | 781-828-0090 x311
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      • Holy Orders
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  • Youth Ministry
    • Bingo
    • Christmas in the City
    • Father Bill's
    • Junior CYO (Middle School)
    • Hope House
    • Operation Lazarus
    • Outreach
    • Ski Trips
    • Sojourner House
    • Kids Camp
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    • Youth Choir
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    • Adult Choir
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