We may also mention marriage here: this too presents itself as a great missionary opportunity, because today \u2013 thank God \u2013 many people who do not attend church very much still wish to be married in church. It is an opportunity to bring these young people face to face with the reality of Christian marriage, of sacramental marriage. It seems to me a great responsibility as well. We see it in the annulment processes, and we see it above all in the great problem of the divorced and remarried, who wish to approach Communion and do not understand why it is not possible. Probably they did not understand, at the moment of their \u00abyes\u00bb before the Lord, what that \u00abyes\u00bb is. It is a covenant with Christ's \u00abyes\u00bb to us. It is an entering into the fidelity of Christ, and therefore into the Sacrament that is the Church, and so into the Sacrament of marriage. For this reason I believe that preparation for marriage is an opportunity of the greatest importance, a missionary opportunity, to proclaim anew in the Sacrament of marriage the Sacrament of Christ, in order to understand this fidelity and thus to make the problem of the divorced and remarried understood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Possiamo menzionare adesso ancora il matrimonio: anche questo si presenta come una grande occasione missionaria, perch\u00e9 oggi – grazie a Dio \u2013 vogliono ancora sposarsi in chiesa anche molti che non frequentano tanto la chiesa. \u00c8 un’occasione per portare questi giovani a confrontarsi con la realt\u00e0 che \u00e8 il matrimonio cristiano, il matrimonio sacramentale. Mi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documenti-e-testi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oasicana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oasicana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oasicana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oasicana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oasicana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oasicana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oasicana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oasicana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oasicana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}